I just realized that the organist plays “God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen” in the middle of his solo in “In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida.”
I still haven’t flown to Lawton. Yesterday, the plane I was scheduled in went out for its 100 hour inspection the flight before mine. Today, I was scheduled in two planes at two different times. The first one is out for maintenance and the other one was supposed to be out of maintenance by now,…
After groundschool, I plotted a cross-country course to Lawton, 61 NM away. We can only fly to airports which are listed as “approved” in our syllabus. I picked Lawton since it was the only place listed at an appropriate distance which I hadn’t landed at before. Unfortunately, when I got school, my instructor informed me…
Berck has been reading The Morning News outloud to me. We especially appreciated this explanation of Olympic sports by the non-expert Andrew Womack: Badminton, Handball, Table Tennis, Tennis & Volleyball Badminton is tennis with a volleyball net and a shuttlecock instead of a ball. Handball is racquetball without a racquet–technically, it could just be called…
We don’t have a TV because Berck doesn’t want one. I don’t mind not having a TV around…except when the Olympics are on. We could apparently get a gadget so we could watch cable on the computer monitor, but it costs $30 and would take however long to get here…by then after the Olympics are…