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Today was a pretty meh day. Jake’s at the International Ground School until Wednesday, so I was the only intern in the office. I actually had stuff to do today. I had to update several of the CBT lessons and the powerpoint for the classroom lectures. It was pretty boring without Jake there to talk to. The guys there are nice but they are a little over the top sometimes so it’s nice to have someone like me around. I took a really short lunch and pretty much worked on the computer the whole time. I wish I could put my pictures on the internet, but the AA internet runs on a proxy so I don’t get any ports except http. So I can’t upload them anywhere. I’m planning on getting internet after my CFI ride if I can’t get on an insecure access point before then. I ran out of stuff to look at online so I had to ask for work. While I was standing in line for lunch some sly pilots looked over and saw my AA badge with “INTERN” written clearly on it. “There’s still time for a career change” they said to me. I just kinda gave them the “wha?” response while they talked about how much of a hassle it is to fly internationally and have your pay cut by 25% or something. “At least you get to fly for a living” was all I had the nerve to say. What I really wanted to say was that paycut or no, I’d be more than willing take that job from them in a heartbeat. Pilots can be some of the biggest complainers in the galaxy. Give a pilot an airplane and he’ll want one with more power. Give him a jet and he’ll complain about not having a full glass cockpit. Give him one and he’ll want auto-throttles. Give him auto-throttles and he’ll bitch that it doesn’t have a HUD and all the cool new airplanes have HUDs. Is it my destiny to be forever disappointed with my career too? I complain about a great many things, but I’ve always felt privileged just to be able to come this far. CFI checkride in 4 days.
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Today I had to come to work even though I should be jumpseating. Apparently I’m in the wrong field of work. I should be the one looking up people’s backgrounds. You get to sit around all day and do nothing and get paid. It’s been 3 weeks and they’ve only finished 3 people. Anyways I spent the morning in the audio-visual room watching the Program Development guys narrate a script for the CBT. It’s nothing terribly special; they just read a script as one huge wav file. Right afterwards I separated the huge file into files so they can be used in authorware. Very exciting and it took about 30 min. Afterwards I played around with the airport familiarization for a little and waited for time to move a little closer to my death. Chipotle for lunch! Best part of the day. After lunch I had to listen to the Overwater emergency training and make a script out of it while Jake got to edit the Far East lesson. I want to edit the lessons because scripting is boring and I’m better at Authorware anyways. Spent the rest of the day looking up how to decrypt WEP keys until all of a sudden all my searches were blocked. I know they monitor the internet usage for keywords but I figured it was all for porn. So I cleared my history and erased it from the hdd and headed home! I guess the 12” powerbook isn’t good at WEP decryption because the airport extreme card sucks and there’s no pc card slot for a better one. I’ll figure something out or end up paying after my CFI ride (1 week ahhh)!.
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Today was boring. I probably spent it doing CBT scripts like always. That’s what I always do. Rachel called Jake and invited us to the airport. We thought she was going to give us a tour of the huge (and I mean huge) AA hangers at DFW were she works. No, we went to the damn terminal, went through damn security which took forever and went to freakin Bennigan’s. It took like 2.5 hours and sucked. Did get to see some cool things like an Embrear 170. It’s a new regional jet that looks like a mini 737. When you see it, you’re like “wtf! It’s so small” but I’d give anything to fly it. The rest of the day involved a lot of being bored. I probably had some project but I can’t remember. I’ve been pretty bad in keeping up with this log. Everyone probably thinks I don’t do a lot at work during the week, and yeah….you’d be right.
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Today wasn’t a great day. I turned in my jumpseat request before noon as I was supposed to. Heard rumors about not being able to go. All the interns were supposed to go see Lisa in the afternoon. She gave us our jumpseat authorization paperwork but said only 2 of the background checks were finished. Mine is not one, so I’m stuck at DFW this weekend. Not only do I not get to fly before my CFI checkride, but I can’t visit Alison this weekend either. As I got home, she called right away. It’s not like I could hide the bad news, she’d find out eventually so I told her I couldn’t make it there this weekend. It does suck that I haven’t gotten to see her much in the last month.
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Uhh today is Saturday so I guess I don’t have to work. I slept in and was later invited to go to the sixth floor museum is Dallas which is where Lee Harvey Oswald assassinated JFK. It was really sad. I don’t really remember what happened after that, I’m sure we went out to dinner afterwards because we always do. I’m writing this way after the fact.
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