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I know it's been a while since I posted about what's going on in my world down here in Texas. From June 25-July 2 Alison came down here because she had two weeks off from school. It was awesome having her here because I get homesick sometimes. We went to the CR Smith Museum, mini golfing, saw superman, and went to Six Flags Over Texas. Maybe not in that order. My CFI checkride was supposed to be on June 30, but because I didnt want to leave her, and a luncheon with American Eagle I cancelled it. It is now rescheduled to July 13 (soon!).
Work at American has been kinda slow lately. I got another project which I finished today; to create a new cbt lesson for the atlantic division. It's nice to have work but it's also annoying at the same time. I don't think I can be satisfied with a normal job. It's the same at Resnet. I hate having computers in the office so I work hard to get them all done so that there will be free time, and once they are done I'm sitting around bored wishing for work.
In other news, I went back home real quick to fly and see Alison and some other smaller reasons. Went to PittsBurgh with Alison and had a fun weekend until Sunday. We were driving out to Ikea and the airport when there was something weird happening on the highway, so we braked and ended up in a four car pile-up. It was not fun. Both of us are hurting from whiplash. I used to think it was something people made up for money, but it hurts like hell and is very inconvienent. I hope it's better by my checkride this Thursday. Poor Alison's car was banged up and we're talking to insurance, who will hopefully not cheat us. That would be the final kick to the crotch right now. I hope it will be okay...
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 Me in the jumpseat
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It's been a while since I've written anything. It puzzles me how fast days go by even though the majority of it is spent by me sitting around bored out of my mind. After my CFI ride on Friday, I went to Kennywood with Alison. It was fun although the lines there were killer and every ride we stood in line for broke right before we got on. Had to jumpseat back Sunday morning to go to the international ground school. Jake liked IGS so I was kinda looking forward to it. I work on International ground school stuff all day every day at work so most of it is stuff I've seen before. The instructor also liked to pick on me because I am an intern and because "I still remember all those fed. aviation regulations" so it was a make fun of the intern and also quiz him a lot kinda week. Bleah. As I get back to my normal job Rich and Pat hand me a huge stack of paper which is a whole new lesson for me to create from scratch. Ugh. Thursday night and I jumpseat back to CLE, hoping to fly and move my dad's website to jo's server. The airplane was about an hour late and full of the hot and suck. I didn't get to fly and jo was at work so it was all for waste. Friday I went from CLE to ORD (O'Hare) and then to PIT to see Alison again. We didn't do a whole lot this weekend, but we did go to see Cars, which is an awesome movie and I highly recommend it. We drove to CLE Sunday morning for father's day. I went to the akron fulton airshow with my dad and it was cool, I enjoyed it. I wasn't able to make my plane from CLE to Ohare (eventually from ohare to dallas later) but there was a direct flight to dallas at the next gate so I walked over and got on that one. It was cool seeing the thunderstorms and navigating around them. That's something we don't get to do at KSU. So now it's the normal week and I'm back to my huge project. Jake was walking around begging for work so I let him type some of the script for me and he made a whole bunch of typos that I didn't catch and I got to take the blame for it. Oh well. I wish I was in a better mood right now but I'm not so this is all you get today.
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Today involved deleting slides in powerpoint and scanning charts to put into powerpoints. I guess what I’m trying to say is that I was out of stuff to do in about an hour. Today’s highlights included setting a new background picture on my powerhouse of a computer. I noticed it was a Pentium ][ 333 and not a Pentium Uno like previously thought. Regardless of the fact that I have the slowest computer in the office (not by much) I am still blessed with a Stealth 32mb video card that allows me to run at 1600x1200 on my 21” monitor. So it’s not all bad. I used the blue default background of OS X 10.4 as my background in stark contrast to the American Airlines backgrounds everyone else has. Airplane backgrounds are cool and all, but most of theirs look like some crappy greeting card in which they used mspaint to put the airplane in the background. So my computer not only looks the sleekest (in my opinion), but probably runs the fastest. It’s Windows 98 so of course it freezes around noon every day with no explanation. I can live with my yash-age computer, and it’s actually fine for most of the work I do (Office 97), the only thing I don’t really like is that the internet works through a proxy (how old-fashioned) and I’m only allowed port 80, so no ftp’ing pictures to you guys and no streaming audio or ssh or anything. All I have for entertainment is web so I read wikipedia a lot. The highlight of today was the flight back to Cleveland, which was supposed to be my first jumpseat experience. Turns out the CRJ has one of the air conditioning packs MEL’d (broken) so apparently it’d be too hot in the cockpit. I was lucky enough to get a seat in the back where I’m actually writing this post. It is a given that whichever seat I choose the person in front of me has to lean back all the way so I have no room for my laptop. It’s pretty uncomfortable. Also, there is the screaming kid© that for absolutely no reason at all refuses to wear the seatbelt during taxi and takeoff. It’s a federal law that people on board wear the seltbelt during taxi, takeoff and landing, so I think a few days in a federal pound-me-in-the-ass prison is in order. I’m gonna go play some crappy KDE games until the flight is over.
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My background check cleared so I'm now free to move about the country.
Whoops! that's Southwest
Planning on being in CLE Thursday for a flight before my CFI ride. If anyone wants to go out to eat, comment. I spend all day sitting around online watching if webcomics or my friends update their sites so do me a favor and entertain me :P Also, Once I get home I will make a picture blog post here and maybe get my actual site online again.
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