Another fairly boring day at work. I have not been to my training yet so there is not a whole lot I can do at work other than just ask people what I can help them with and try to learn new skills by following people around. I sat in the line outside the gate for almost 20 minutes this morning. It is starting to get pretty ridiculous. They closed on of the gates so the traffic at the gate I normally go through is atrocious. But it should only be this way for a month or two. In addition, I just bought a house that will put me much closer to work which will help to alleviate the problem.
Once I got to work I just had one meeting today and then I had to go and get a physical for some training that I am going to. Pretty benign physical but I did see that my blood pressure had gone down since my last visit to the doctor a couple weeks ago, when I am pretty sure I had the Swine. That ate up pretty much the rest of the morning. I read a bit of Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea during my lunch. So far I enjoy it. It is a regular routine for me to eat my lunch while I read a book on my Kindle. I just finished reading The Lost Symbol which I thought was pretty good other than the fact that it was eerily similar to Angels and Demons. I spent the rest of the afternoon just surfing the internet and chatting it up with some of the guys. I cut out early from work and decided I would head to the local municipal airport because I have been contemplating getting my private pilots license. This is where my day got infinitely more interesting.
I have been looking at getting my PPL for a couple weeks now and I decided today would be a good day to go get some info on it. So I pulled into the airport parking lot and this guy pulls up right behind my car boxing me in. This was a little weird so I got out of the car and this guy says he has been following me for the last 2 miles. At this point I am thinking, "Shoot what did I do push this guy's buttons." Turns out he saw all my skydiving stickers on the back of my car and wanted to ask me about it. He points across the runway to a A-26 World War II Bomber and says he has been curious about letting people jump out of it at their air shows. Apparently, they do dogfight reenactments and thought it would be cool to get "shot down" and then have people jump from the airplane. At this point I am grinning ear to ear because this sounds absolutely amazing. He tells me that he has been jumping for quite sometime and we chat for a little bit. Then he invites me over to their hangar. So after I got the info I wanted from the flight school I made my way over to their hangar. I spent almost two hours with this guy and his teammates. They showed me the plane, lets me sit in the cockpit, and pretty much taught me the basics of flying it. Plus I got a lot more info from these guys about learning to fly. They invited me to come back anytime, which I intend to do. At any rate, it was pretty cool.
After that I came home this evening talked with my college roommate on the web cam and then did a three way call with him and my wife. I did not know you could do that stuff so that was pretty neat. Then I made dinner, which concluded with me deciding to write this blog. And here I sit.
I guess I will try to make this a daily thing so we will see how it goes. I am sure I will get more proficient at writing a blog as I go but I simply and just trying to write down all my thoughts. So one random discussion that happened today was about the invention of a sleeve for Camelbak water bottles to prevent them from "sweating" but also still allows you to see how full it is. Well that is all I can think of for now, I will write again tomorrow.
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