Target

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If you catch yourself asking, "What should we do on a Saturday night," and have no idea, go to the local Target and look at a Wizard comic pricing guide, video games, and get supplies for your hotel room. That's exactly that I did tonight. Exciting eh? Yesterday, I got the chance to see what everyone was talking about when I went to the Muvico Movie Theater. It felt like I was in Ceasars palace or something because of all the towering pillars. We watched X-Men 3 and even got some good seats within 20 minutes of show time. Good stuff. Of course, someone was there a little earlier to save us some seats, but not like a whole lot earlier. Good times...but the movie...it was alright. Better than what I expected, go check it out. MI3 was good too by the way.

My last two weeks at Focus Air constitutes me auditing Flight Trip Envelopes. It is a tedious and arduous job, but someone has to do it and that job has now been assigned to me. I don't mind it at all. I just hate basically ratting out the crew that missed things here or there. We are doing an amazing job too with accuracy and consistenacy. There are so many flights each day and so many folders. Overall, this means that we are doing really well!!!

I'm hoping to start working on the CASS Implementation program for Focus Air this upcoming week when the software comes in from Ameriflight. They developed a great program that could be leased out to others and implemented readily with some minor adjustments here are there. I'm really looking forward to spear heading that project. More or less, I want that to be my legacy. =) Sounds corny, but it is a big thing. CASS, otherwise known as Cockpit Access Security System consists of a way to validate a pilots employment on a domestic airline and provide them the seat in a cockpit of a commuting flight when no other seats are left in the cabin. It's convienient to pilots and I hope that it happens soon.

I've been doing a lot of overtime which is definitely a good thing for me monetary wise, but I have been burning myself out lately. I slept today till 12 Noon and then decided that I might as well catch another hour. I ended up getting 3 more. I'm doing some laundry at my friends house and just enjoying a quiet evening. Tomorrow will be interesting as there is nothing really that I have to do. I'll probably just read up more on the CASS programming and get started in assigning positions, etc. There's a lot to be done!!!

I can't tell you how much I am falling in love with this company. I mean, working there everyday with everyone all happy and just doing the right thing to make this company successful is a good feeling. I can only hope for the best. It's almost been a month since I started!!! Crazy!!!

Baadie and her graduation

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So, this past friday, my girlfriend graduated from SDSU with her Master's in Public Health. Good stuff eh? She's planning on going to more schooling to become a nurse so that's cool and all, but it does have a drawback in that we would be switching coasts. I mean, it'll be all good once I start flying anyways, so maybe it'll all work out.

I flew here on Southwest with only two stops along the way to SD. From FLL to JAX then to Nashville, then SD. It wasn't that bad of a flight at all and I must say that the landings were great.
I'm going to be heading back home to the Hampton Inn in a couple of hours (more like 6) and just start up another exciting week at work! More auditing, but I should be done soon. I'm very excited for the next project that I'm going to be taking over.

Congrats to Manoj for getting hired at Focus Air. It's going to be an awesome year. You learn so much and as long as your interested and never rest, you're going to always have your hands full. I'm loving it already!

Driving

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On Saturday (May 13th), I left the Hotel around 12:00ish and made my journey back home after really talking myself into needing to go home. It was worth it because I got to hang out with Matty P and his fiance and we even got to head out the new "European Village" in Palm Coast. That was definitely a pretty chill place with a piano bar, large cinema screens in the middle of the town and just a good ambiance all around. I wish that I could have hit that place up more often when I was back in Palm Coast. Oh well...

I'm back in Fort Lauderdale and come to think of it, I was barely gone for 24 hours. I made my trip back down around 12:30PM and got here in time to work some overtime at 4:00PM.

FOC Auditing

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Now, this is a job for someone who likes to be really neat, clean, organized and get something going out of something that needs to be handled!!! What I mean is, I'm loving the fact that I get to implement tracking and auditing measures for the FOC Packet Folders! I like making this better or just improving procedures. Here's a pic of the new office that I'm sitting in. I'm the only one around only because I chose to work some overtime. I'll be needing every minute I can get. I also have a lot to do and finish, so it's going to be awesome! THe window faces the main runway at Fort Lauderdale International too!!! It's a great view.

Revisions

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Well, I got to learn a little bit more about the Jepp bags today. This time, updating the entire set with a bunch of different stuff. I don't think that I beat my other record, but I definitely got it right. I mean, there were a lot of updates! Nothing new to write really except that I was able to get some peeps monitors working today with their laptops for dual screening it, got wireless access, got my company e-mail yesterday, (enicolas@focusaircargo.com), met more people, and that's about it. I couldn't be more happier.

I'm going up to Flagler I think tomorrow with Justin to do a LOFT or something on Saturday or even Sunday. I still need to find a place to live here in Fort Lauderdale. Everything is so expensive!!! Anyone know anyone looking for peepes to be their renters? Oh yeah, that also reminds me, does anyone need a place up at Flagler? I'll be having quite a bit of openings soon.

Schedule: My sun burn is getting better and I will continue to get better hopefully in the next two days. =) I'm going to to San Diego next Thursday on Southwest to see my gee-eff graduate from SDSU with her Masters on Friday. She's coming back with me on Sunday to the FLL and hang out with me for a bit. I can't hardly wait!