Today finally marks the end to Adelle’s little fantasy of waffles at the Waffle House. Definitely not that great at all. I don’t even recommend eating there really. It’s okay, but nothing short of what I couldn’t do. I mean, eggo waffles taste better! Oh well, it was the experience that we were after. There was also this HUGE fly buzzing near. I mean, it almost looked like a bumble bee.

Tonight should be the first night flight in the PA44. We are in N926ER, again. If you don’t remember, its the plane that had the mold issue going on and crews getting sick. The last time I flew that plane, it wasn’t that bad at all. I mean, the weather was a little colder than normal so that probably helped with the smell. Usually on the hot days, 926 smells the worst. Adelle is thinking of coming tonight, but we’ll see how the plane is prior to taking off. Maneuvers should be fun. I’ve never done them in the PA44 at night. I’m definitely looking forward to the flight.

GO CHARGERS!!!

So, if it isn’t weather, its resources. It’s not the lack of instructors at CAPT, but the lack of multi-engine aircraft. We have 4 PA44 and 3 of them are still down. So, yeah, I didn’t fly again today. This will be bordering a record of how many days I haven’t flown.

Graduation of a class that I actually knew took place today. The catering was better We’ll see how things go! and the keynote was very informative. It would be nice to get a transcipt of the speech. We also got new CAPT hats. They don’t look that great, but they were free (in some weird sense if you don’t include the huge tuition). Looks like there is good news all around with the various airlines working with CAPT. Once again, excitement is in the air.

Adelle is here on a short trip. I’m excited that we get time to hang out.

I was a little surprised to get canned tonight. Once again, another PA44 was downed for maintenance or whatever. So, Manoj and I are beginning to truly get the feeling of not flying everyday. It’s not that bad, but I mean, I could be using my time here to be working or studying whichever. It just feels as if I could be using my time more wisely and I’m not. Yeah its my fault but I just don’t want to exert myself too much before a flight.

Adelle is coming over tomorrow early in the morning. She’s taking the red eye from SD to LAX to ATL then down to DAB. It’s going to be a long flight. But she’s a trooper. I can’t wait. I do have a night flight in the evening which will dappen the mood, but it should be a lot of fun.

Today was a good day in N926ER. I have to say that I was a little hesitant in flying that airplane because of what Laura told me last night. To sum up that experience, she didn’t feel that good at all. She basically threw up afterwards and the rest of the crew got sick. I’m not sure, but the smell inside the aircraft is quite rancid. So, after eating a huge lunch, Manoj and I were a little scared of feeling sick ourselves. We had weather on our side today because it didn’t allow for the smell to heat up. Instead, the cold weather helped out a bit in keeping it down. We flew around for about 3.7 hours total and got a good lesson in. We start night flights tomorrow along with steep turns and other maneuvers. That should be fun.

Should I get my CFI?

I had a feeling that I might need two alarms for the morning, so last night, I set one at 5:40 AM and the other at 6:20 AM. Did that work? Nope… Instead Manoj gave me a, “Where are you?” call around 7:30 (I just got up like 2 minutes before) and notified me that we were on standby waiting for resources. Of course when I say resources, its none other than the PA44. Three out of our four were down and one was out. We stuck around for our instructor who then just told us to go home and wait for a call. We got one, but it was the news that we had been cancelled. Oh well!

Adelle is ocming this Friday! I do have night flights so that’s going to stink up the night time events, but the morning and afternoons should be fun! What do you want to do babe?!

I have to say that the past two weekends that I have had a chnace to relax by going out have been both huge, major busts! I mean, I don’t expect anything anymore of Daytona Beach, but at least some gratifying notion of social life would help out the demeaning character of this hell hole. Whew…that was a mouthful.

Well, looks like Hurricane Wilma has come and gone. It’s a good thing I guess. I got a free hour in the DA40 and I’m ready to leave whenever another storm hits. Come to think of it, the season is slowly but surely almost to and end and without any harm to my residence. Is this just a quirky notion that I should sell the house before some devastates my neighborhood? *Ummmm*

I walked outside today and the weather is amazingly frigid. I mean, it was if I was standing in some snow in Big Bear! It was nice. I almost had to get a jacket for the 2 minutes that I was outside checking the mail. I’m loving this. Good thing for cold fronts. ^_^

Well, the pressure was on and the Bolts weren’t able to pull through. We had a good rally and tried to help LT break the record but with no success. I never thought that I would ever get emotionally over football, let alone the Chargers, but damn, I was really mad. In every game that we have lost, we have lost with the lead in the 4th with the opposing team making the winning drive within the last few minutes of the game. It was an absolute disaster! I remember watching the pregame and every player on Phillys team was asked how they were going to stop LT. They did their job and quite well too. I rememeber that they were also talking about how LT needed a new name, I was thinking that Jojo’s name of Boltron be a good one, but now, I just don’t know. (check out his icon)

So, after waking up to the Chief Flight Instructor of CAPT giving me a call to give us a heads up on Hurricane evac, I ended up going back to sleep because he said we were okay. So of course, I started to continually dream about evacuating and the procedures involved. It wasn’t pretty…the dreams I mean. It was restless sleep so I just decided to wake up and get going on my new big breakfast ordeal. I woke up to Jeremy making some Chocolate Chip pancakes. They were awesome. I even went back to my old school ways. I had some with syrup and some with butter and sugar. I actually preferred the latter. I guess that I was just accustomed to being not able to have syrup as a kid. It was a great childhood. I miss it!