Posts by Berck

When I got up this morning, the computers were in a sad state. Seems to have been power problems. I’ve fixed most things. Here’s what it looks like in Norman this morning.

I just finished a bunch of upgrades to the blog server that required, erhm, manual intervention. I think I’ve gotten it all working. If you see anything broken, let me know.

Now we’ve got Apache 2, updated WordPress, new PHP… And nothing seems to be different…

My flight instructor called last night. “Just wanted to make sure you remembered that you have that cross country tomorrow.”

“Yes, I remember. Am I still on the schedule? Is the plane working?”

“Yes, everything’s good, you’re ready to go in the morning.”

So when I got there this morning and asked for the plane, they told me it was down for maintenance.

Some new photos up on the photos page. Link at the top right corner of the page…

I got up at 6:30 this morning, packed a lunch, checked the weather and went to the flight school. I left my lunch. I got to the flight school at about 7:35. When no one was there to even let me in the building by 8:30am, I called my instructor. Who was asleep. And didn’t even apologize. I’m really starting not to like him.

I called the weather briefer. Who told me that the surface winds at Dalhart, TX were predicted to be 25-35 knots about the time I’d arrive. Flight school says I can’t fly if surface winds are over 25 knots. Besides, I’ve never landed with 35 knot gusts, and this probably isn’t the time to try.

I was going to try to do it in the middle of the week, but I’m leaving for Delaware on Tuesday, and when I come back on Thursday, Mom will be here. I don’t want to spend a whole day flying when she’s here to visit, so I’m tentatively on the schedule for Monday the 20th.

I wanted to be done with this. I’m tired of worrying about it.

I think I’ve gotten everything back to normal. I’m still not sure what happened. MySQL seems to get corrupted sometimes.

Next time the blog looks all wonky or doesn’t load, you could let me know there’s a problem!