• Up at 0700AM for 2 roundtrips and a 3 hr gap in between. ATL-ABE-ATL-IND-ATL it’s snowing in both places too! Can’t hardly wait (^_^) #
• It’s always a pleasure to get off of work early but it kills to have your car’s battery go dead in the parking lot due to prolonged parking #
• Trying out Starbucks’ new Espresso Truffle in a venti to hold me over the rest of the day. #
• Up at 0500AM for a 5 leg day [ABY-ATL-AEX-ATL-SHV-ATL] then to the crashpad for a quick overnight. Day line tomorrow ^_^ #
• Staying at the Merry Acres in Albany, GA! What a way to celebrate Black Friday. #
• It’s 418AM and I’m up and about getting ready for a four leg day. EVV-ATL-BTR-ABY #
• One more leg to Evansville, Indiana then overnighting at the Jameson Inn. Any families up that way want to adopt a pilot crew for T-day? #
• After 40 mins of Jepp updates, let the madness begin. ATL-MDT-ATL-EVV. #
• I’m baaaaack…..in the ATL. A two hour nap then 3 legs to go with a deadhead in between. #
• Finished Quantum of Solace -liked it but not as good as the first Craig. Now onto see 4 Christmases the catch on Heroes tonight b4 work. #
• Nine hours left in SAN until I have to go back to work on a red eye and spend Thanksgiving in a hotel in Evansville, Indiana! Yea for me! #
• sleep, wake up early for some word, hang out till the CoD5 tournament! be there at 1530! #
• Toyota for servicing the Prius, walking to Hileary Park for some geocaching with mom, mailing stuff out for amazon sales, then…hanging out #

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After a good 23 years of family ownership, the 1985 Mercedes Benz 300D Turbo Diesel has left the Nicolas family. When it really came down to it, I actually couldn’t part with it and made the new owner a deal that I would get a chance to see it again after he converted it to run alternative fuel, fix the rear damage and upgrade the upholstery. I’m excited to see how Turbo will look, but I grew up in that car.

Backstory: I post it on craigslist just under 24 hours ago, and boom, it’s gone. I basically inherited the car when I was in high school, and drove here in between the civics and c-classes that I went through, but Turbo always just had a special place in my heart and mind.  She was the ultimate surfer’s beach mobile and that is what I used her for.  It was something to always kick back in and enjoy the San Diego weather!  She always proved to just drive when I wanted her to drive and now, I might be trying to find another W123 body style to replace her.

Bye Turbo!

She’ll be missed!

The garage is almost cleaned up and unpacked and the office downstairs is about 75% complete.  Rummaging through some boxes, I was able to find quite a few of my old video games, put them up on my amazon.com sellers account, and boom, I sold 11 games ranging from $1.99 to $14.99.  Minus the ~25% amazon commissions fee, I made $110!  There’s a lot to more to sell too from DVDs to other stuff I got and don’t use and they’re going at 80% off retail!  Check it out when you have sometime.  

I woke up today to a startling, “you’re front yard is flooding!” and upon walking outside, the sprinkler system was busted right where the main line connects to the front yard.  Check out the pictures at trelijah.  I have a before and after.  I’ve never done any plumbing before and went to the Home Depot to buy some quick drying blue cement and a 1″ end cap just in case we needed to stop the system entirely.  TO sum it up, we were out of water for the 4 hours, I drained a couple of buckets worth emptying out the area where I needed to patch up the piping and then after more yardwork, I rested a bit.  Exciting way to start the day.  

I bid for my December schedule and got awarded my vacation allotment for 2009.  I’m off for a red eye back to ATL then I’ll be flying around the system for the next three days.  Catch me back in San Diego on Saturday night or Baton Rouge Thursday and Friday night.

The Chargers couldn’t lose because they had a bye week, JR and Veronica had their wedding shower, Adelle convinced me to head out to Disneyland before our pass privileges were set to expire, I got a chance to hang out with Dr. Nourani in Downtown San Diego, and I did a little work in finishing up my migration to my new MacBook Pro.

Disneyland was definitely a great highlight as the lines were short allowing us to ride what we wanted (California Adventures’ Soaring is still the best), the apple pie caramel apple was a delight and the biggest plus was seeing one of my college roommates as a Jedi Knight Instructing young Padawans on stage at a Disneyland show!  Mr. Stephan Oyoung, without a doubt has the best job.  Working 4 days a week teaching kids how to rid the world of the dark side with light saber techniques, what more could you ask in a post graduate occupation?!  Two thumbs up and kudos to you Jedi Oyoung.

On the day of voting, I got to witness a new dawn in Downtown with yet another college buddy, Dr. Nourani and was readily entertained with his residency stories.  I mention a new dawn only because it was about the time when Barack was making his acceptance speech and McCain ending his bid. Bobby’s stories make me wonder where I would have been at if I did do a post-bac program in lieu of flight school.   We ate at Marsala (an Indian restaurant of course) which was tremendous but a bit overpriced then made our way to Altitude Sky Bar where we got to see the Madonna Concert without the Madonna.  Good times all around, but once again I find myself commuting back to work.  It’s been a while since I’ve been at the crashpad.  I can’t wait to get the band back together.  

Finally a solution for an animated weather radar.  (thanks Zaphu)  There currently two applications that can do just this, but it requires a nominal fee of $0.99.  With the current reviews nearing the low 2 stars, I’m a little hesitant.  The author of Radar-In-Motion has mentioned that he will accommodate the quirks that others have been complaining about which might make it worth it later on.  

iWeathr

iWeathr is the best radar app for the iPhone that I have found so far. Navigate to iweathr.com and locate your nearest radar location. Note that you won’t be entering the city where you live but rather the location of a radar installation. For help finding the nearest one to you go here. This implementation allows both rotation and zooming in - very nice!

iWeathr.com

Another nifty weather iPhone web application can be found at http://iphone.my-cast.com/ It’s a basic forecasting web-app but all that more powerful and simple.

*Update: kurt mentioned below that he prefers i.wund.com for it’s simplicity and the mass information that is displayed on the iPhone screen for that particular location. I have to say that it definitely does show great information, but the moving map on iweathr.com is the basic one that is hosted by the government’s weather website: http://adds.aviationweather.gov/radar/ which is the one that prefer using when scoping out the weather prior to flying. Thanks for the comments!