kenny
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Requiescat in Pace
Well, it is the beginning of the end. I am a real, full-time, salaried slave….er, “employee” as of today, Tuesday, July 1, 2008. I took the plunge and am now flying my jet job as a full-timer and not as a contractor anymore. Good news, I get paid when I don’t work. Bad news, they don’t like it when you don’t work. I was really hoping that I would not have to work on my first day, but I got the call and had to fly to New Mexico. Left at 7am, back by 1pm. I guess I cannot really complain about having to fly a jet on my first…
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Imperial? That is a bit overstated.
Where do I start? I am in Imperial, California. It is over 100 degrees. It is hot and sticky and smells bad. Me and my co-pilot are in our uniforms; charcoal dress slacks, starched white shirts, shiny grey epaulets, fancy blue ties. The Imperial Airport FBO is slightly… well let’s just say not the nicest one I have visited. Anyway, we need to use a crew car to run into “town” to grab some lunch and some catering. They generously offer (and by generously I mean like pulling teeth without novacaine) the mechanic’s old white full-size Chevy pick-up truck; doors won’t open from the inside, more dents than a golf…
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Cinco de Quatro!
Cinco de Quatro (May 4th*) Kenny was home all day Sunday! We had a relaxing morning and made Chorizo and Eggs for breakfast in honor of the upcoming holiday. So yummy! Later on that morning we said goodbye to a new, but dear friend 🙁 That afternoon we met up with Chadd and his girls at the beach. Sierra and Haven dragged us into the water with them and begged us to bury them in the sand so that they could “stay warm”. We were more than happy to oblige them since we weren’t the ones who had to get all that sand off of them later on 🙂 Chorizo…
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Fishing in Georgia
I left my honey again to go explore! This time my mini paid vacation has taken me to the lake community of Sebastion Cove in Eatonton, Georgia. The other pilot’s parents live here and have all the cool retirement toys, including a pontoon boat which is the local preferred method for taking anglers to the many large mouth bass hiding in Lake Oconee. While I have fished quite a bit in my life, I have only fished for bass once and only for a few hours in San Vicente Reservoir in San Diego. The end result of that attempt was that I caught one fish on my bass rig, a…
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Cinco de Tres!
Cinco de Tres (May 3rd*) Saturday Kenny had to fly to Oregon so Danny & Tonita once again rescued me from a day of sheer boredom. Around noon I headed over to their house and the three of us went down to the trolley station and bough tickets to Old Town San Diego. It was D&T’s first time on the Trolley and I think the people around us thought we were weird for taking pictures and listening to Tonita exclaim “Oh! It is so pretty from up here!” When we got to Old Town some really nice people were there giving out energy drinks (which we really needed after the…
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Cinco de…
Cinco de Dos (May 2nd*) Friday night Danny & Tonita came over to have Mexican food and watch “Dragon Wars.” Here is the description of the movie… “Meet Baruki, the vicious, 200 meter long, Imoogi serpent from ancient Korea. His army includes giant lizard with missile launchers, flying dragons, soldiers bred for evil, and mega-intelligent dinosaurs.” Doesn’t that sound like the BEST MOVIE EVER?!? No? Come on. We are talking MEGA-INTELLIGENT DINOSAURS… what could be better?!? Semi-intelligent dinosaurs can’t even hold a candle to the awesomenesses of MEGA-intelligent dinosaurs. Don’t even get me started on the soldiers bred for evil. They aren’t just born evil… they were bred for it.…
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Say again…?
So, I am starting to blog funny things I hear on the radio while flying. Here is that latest laugh, I will keep the story short… A student and I had just taken off from one of Gillespie’s two runways. Just as we took off from runway 27R, another student (from the competition) crashes on the other runway, 27L. He manages to smash the small Cessna 152 into the ground so hard it bursts into flames. As one can image, it is no longer advisable to land on a runway which is occupied by a flaming Cessna. Tower Control now has their hands full in that there were about 5…
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Zippy
Well, ever since Jen killed my fish two days after we got him I have longed for a replacement of my finned companion. This particular story began with a simple run into Walmart to get Pilot a new leash. Of course, I had to walk past the fish tanks to find his leash. Being the ADHD-oh-look-at-the-pretty-fish person that I am, it was all down hill from there. In less than 15 minutes, I had a new aquarium picked out along with the 27 different fish that I could not live without. In a rare moment of weakness, I showed some self restraint, and put it all back. I did not…
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It’s just a made-up day
Leap Year Day is a stupid day that shouldn’t exist. Last week I had bought into the hipe of getting an extra “free” day. I was excited that it was Leap Year and couldn’t wait for February 29th. We planned on taking the day off.. since it was an extra day after all… and go to Disneyland. Well, Friday came and we both ended up going to work instead. Big mistake. February 29th was a cursed day. Kenny forgot his uniform dress shows and accidentally showed up at his jet job wearing grungy old Vans… a definite no-no. Then 15 minutes before his flight was to leave for Mexico he…
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From Snow to Surf
San Diego is the coolest place to live… ever! And trust us, we have been all around the world. On Sunday we loaded up the Explorer and headed up to the mountains 20 minutes away. There was still snow and Pilot had a great time playing in it. It was so deep in some places he would fall in if he landed too hard! After spending some time in the mountains we stopped at home and swapped out the cars and headed to the beach for a little surf, sand and seafood. We had a great crab and shrimp dinner and then went for a walk on Crystal Pier. Yep,…
