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Thursday, January 27th, 2005
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| Time: | 9:31 pm. |
| Mood: | chill. | | Music: | Ascent to Sansui-UltraMax Music. |
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Today was another chill day. I went to the airport around 1 pm and flew patterns around the airport again. I did much better this time but just as i was getting in the groove, the winds picked up so i had to head back to the hanger as i am only endorsed for up-to 10 knot winds.
Ground school finished a little early so jimmy and i headed over to Claire de Lune in North Park for some coffee and to chill with our laptops. I am spending the time updating my LJ while Jimmy is working with his mixing skills on Traktor.
It's kind of fun to just hang out and relax outside of the house... Damn this White Chocolate Mocha is good. :9
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| Time: | 9:22 pm. |
| Mood: | chill. | | Music: | Track 07-Makkura. |
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Yesterday i hangout around the house not doing too much. I woke up around 9:30 am and then watched Startrek on SpikeTV. I kept telling my self that i was going to go for a walk but i just didn't want to leave the house. I finally motivated my self to take a shower around 2:30 but then sat back down on the couch as my life was slowly drained by the TV.
Cheryl called me around 3:00 pm saying that she had finished school for the day wanted to go to a park somewhere and grade papers. I ended up meeting her down in Balboa park. we wondered around for a bit making casual conversation.
I left the park around 4:30 pm and headed over to Jimmy's house. We went out for dinner and watched Garden State on DVD.
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This weeks as been one for the books. I soloed for the first and second times on Tuesday. I found my self incredibly relaxed and was able to focus on my flying. It is weird how much easer it is to fly without an instructor because it is one less thing you are paying attention to. Not having to focus on what she was telling me, I was able to spend more time checking my instruments and the sky around me for other aircraft.
The flight started with my instructor and I going up and flying 3 traffic patterns. Then i dropped her off at the hanger and took off again. I flew 3 more traffic patterns by my self and returned to the hanger. The only unnerving part was that there was another helicopter in the pattern with me. They were good at maintaining some distance but they spent the whole time behind me so i could not tell how far away they were. After I was done my instructor and i talked about the flight then cut up my shirt.
I guess a tradition for pilots is to cut the back off you shirt when you solo for the first time. Then you write the date and time for the flight along with the aircraft you flew in and your instructors name. The shirt then gets hung on the wall of the hanger.
The next flight for my instructor got canceled so we went off to fly again but the visibility was so bad that we ended up coming back and I hovered by my self at the public heli-pads. It's strange how much differently the helicopter handles with only one person in it. Instead of being nose heavy you are back heavy and the whole helicopter leans to the right making the control inputs totally different.
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Saturday, January 22nd, 2005
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I find the incredibly funny and could not stop laughing while watching it. But for some reason the 3 people here at work I sent it to didn't find it funny... just disturbing.
Poodle Fitness
Am I disturbed?
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Thursday, January 20th, 2005
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Today i had my Pre Solo stage check at school. It was my chance to show the head flight instructor my abilities and show him that i am ready to fly without and instructor. Sadly the flight could have gone better and it showed me that i still have a lot of skills to improve. But thankfully I did well enough to pass the stage check. So hopefully once my instructor endorses me for the traffic patters at Gillespie Field I should fly on my own some time next week.
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I have found time passing slowly these last few weeks. It is as if i am in cryostasis. Working, sleeping and the occasional helicopter flight seems to be the bulk of my life right now. My relationship with Cheryl has been progressing nicely and begin developing into a spiritual bond and not just a bond of friendship. We spent a few hours last friday having dinner and reading the bible together. This new development has been the beginning of a relationship type i have not experienced before and i find it a welcome change from my other friendships. We have also challenged each-other to spend more time reading the bible and praying. I have been able to spend at-least 30 minutes a day reading and praying, and have found it to have a profound effect on my relationship with God.
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Sunday, January 9th, 2005
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| Time: | 12:04 am. |
| Mood: |  calm. |
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I beat HalfLife 2 yesterday and all today I felt as part of my life was missing. It was like I had all this free time and nothing to do with it. Sure i could read a book or go out and enjoy some fresh air but instead I sat on in my office chair staring at my computer screen. I wanted to start playing CounterStrike online but was afraid that it would consume me like HalfLife did, so I did noting. Maybe i'll start playing CounterStrike on Monday.
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Saturday, January 8th, 2005
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I decided to get home phone service to lighten some of the burden of my cell phone. So i setup an account with Vonage for VoIP service. One of the cool things you can do is forward calls to other phone numbers, so i set it up to ring both my Vonage line and my cellphone at the same time then to role to my voicemail after 30 seconds. Hopefully with having access to a phone at home i'll be able to decrease the minutes on my cell phone.
I also bought a Tempurpedic bed today. I've been having problem getting a good night sleep on my current bed and after log hours away late at night being bur-aged by infomercials I decided to try one. It should be here in a few weeks and then i get 4 months to try it out. Hopefully ill get a more restful night sleep.
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Thursday, January 6th, 2005
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| Time: | 11:44 pm. |
| Mood: | mellow. |
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well it is good to be back, but now i am back to my old exciting life of flying, sleeping and work; however I'm not even flying. was scheduled to fly today and tomorrow but i canceled my flight for today because my instructor is out of town and the person taking her spot is new so they cant teach me emergency procedures. So i canceled the flight because there isn't much point in my doing anything else. I am trying to fly with the chief CFI tomorrow but I think that even if i cant, i am going to fly with the new instructor just for the sake of flying.
I got together win Jimmy on tuesday for dinner, we went over to Nibon then went to Starbucks and geeked out with our Powerbooks. It is cool chilling with jimmy and was the first time i felt that i was getting to know him on a deeper friend. It seems that we are both struggling with the same kind of issues and I felt that our friendship is growing stronger.
Tonight I met up with Jimmy and Ramiro after ground school. I met them at Target as they were buying some scented candles... not sure why... anyway afterward we went to Starbucks and had a coffee and chatted about miscellaneous things. when we had finished our drinks we headed back to Ramiro's place and chilled with out laptops and watched Comedy Central. It was kind of awkward just sitting there with our laptops and watching TV. Not allot was said and I felt a little weird being there. When 11:00 p.m. rolled around Jimmy said he had to go because he was getting tired. I took this as the opportunity to leave ass well and headed home.
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Monday, January 3rd, 2005
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well the week ended nicely, i ended up skiing a half-day on friday and all day saturday. friday was the best snow i have ever skied on and i enjoyed myself immensely. On saturday the sun actually came out and the snow stopped. the morning was nice but in the afternoon the winds picked up and the temperature dropped to near zero with wind-chill.
All and all I think the trip was a good one. The trip home was uneventful and had little trouble with the snow covered roads on the way to bishop. We took highway 14 all the way to the 5 and ended up making the trip of 400 miles in only 6 hours.
After dropping my dad off at home and sorting out the luggage i headed over to Joey's house for a few movies and dinner. I ended up spending the night there and had a lazy morning watching Modern Marvels and learning how to play Pai Gow Poker. I think in a week or two we are going to go to try our hand at one of the local casinos.
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Friday, December 31st, 2004
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Well the good news is that we got 30" of snow last night. The bad news is that we have gotten 12" since 6 am. Only 4 lifts are open and the Cross Country ski area is closed for the day.
I think regardless of the conditions I'm going to get a half day pass. The snow should be awesome regardless but visibility will suck.
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Thursday, December 30th, 2004
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Ok so what's up with gift giving during the holidays. It seems like i spend more time buying gifts because i am obligated to get them one and not because i really want to get them something. Why do i have to get them a gift for christmas or their birthday. Why isn't taking them out for dinner every now and then or buying them something when i see something i think they would like good enough. Also why can't I give someone a $20.00 book as a christmas gift when they are spending $200.00 on one for me.
I guess part of it is the people you are giving gifts too. I know some people... like my mom... who would be upset if i didn't get them a gift and probably hold it ageist me for some time. Luckily I don't have too many people i am obligated to give gifts too but still the whole idea of obligated gift giving sucks!
Maybe ill just stop giving gifts on the days that you are obligated to give on and step up my spontaneous gift giving a bit and see what happens.
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| Time: | 2:28 pm. |
| Mood: | relaxed. | | Music: | Step Right On-Paul Van Dyk. |
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The weekend before christmas Cheryl and I went on a date. I took her out to Cabrio monument and we watched the sun set. then we went over to Hash House A Go Go for dinner. after we went in search of christmas lights but didn't have much luck... guess people arnt in a festive mood this year.
She left on monday the 20th to go home for christmas. I was kind of disipointed to see her leave so eary and would have liked to spend another day with her seeing that the two of us had the week off but oh well. For christmas I got her a copy of The Heavenly Man and a $20 Starbux gift card. The gift kind of caught her off guard because we hadn't talked about getting each other gifts (see next post for rant about gift giving) anyway sunday afternoon when i got home from church there was a gift bag on my front porch from her. Inside was a card with a picture of the beach during the sunset and a note, also in the bag was a Hot Pack to take away the aces and pains of skiing.
I wish she was up here with me so we could ski together and go snow shoeing though the forests together. /sigh
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| Time: | 1:58 pm. |
| Mood: | relaxed. | | Music: | Forbidden Fruit-Paul Van Dyk. |
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Well after a few weeks of computer problems... not the fault of apple but me breaking my laptop repeatedly... anyway i am back up and running, the holidays are over and i am enjoying a week up at mammoth.
Christmas was uneventful... for once. the drama was kept to a minimum. I got a sweater, jeans, a book on making sushi, a gift card for REI and some other stuff.
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Friday, December 10th, 2004
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Tuesday, November 30th, 2004
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I am glad that work is over for the week, It's been so slow and boring. On my way home I stopped by Home Brew Mart and picked up Brewing Kit 3. I'm looking forward to trying my hand at brewing.
Tomorrow I am going to go to Snow Summit again so maybe ill spend Thursday working on my Brew :)
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Monday, November 29th, 2004
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| Time: | 12:00 pm. |
| Mood: |  tired. |
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I got my GPS working with my powerbook and went war driving wound the neighborhood seeking out wireless networks. I went over all the streets with in half a mile of my house and found over a hundred networks.
I'm using a cool program called KisMAC. They have a reporting feature, but non of the networks i uploaded are showing up yet :(
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Thursday, November 25th, 2004
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| Time: | 7:20 pm. |
| Mood: |  happy. |
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Well things didn't go too bad, specially with they way this Thanksgiving was headed.
I got to Curtis' house around 12:00 PM and hung out for a while, then joined them for some turkey. dinner was nice and was just Myself, Curtis, Geneyes, Tiffany, Shaun and Katie. Everyone was in good sprites however there was a slight underling sorrow. After dinner i helped out with the dishes then headed over to my mom's house.
Dinner at my moms was okay. She had two women over from her church and the 4 of us had dinner. I was feeling a bit sleep due to all the turkey I had eaten so I headed home early.
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| Time: | 9:45 am. |
| Mood: | happy. |
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I talked to my mom this morning and she told me that she had decided to cook dinner after all. Turns out that she will be eating dinner at 3:30PM so I'll have time to go over to Curtis' before hand. Things are looking up.
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Wednesday, November 24th, 2004
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| Time: | 10:04 pm. |
| Mood: |  annoyed. |
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on my way home i called my mom to make sure that she still didn't want to have dinner at Curtis' house. She told me that i should join them for dinner since i obviously wanted have dinner with him. After a few minutes persuasion i convinced her that i really did want to dinner with her.
When i got off the phone with my mom i called Curtis and told him that i wouldn't be able to join them for dinner. He said that they were eating at 1 PM and to stop by if I had time.
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sleepy.
disappointed.