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, but isn’t. And tomorrow is Saturday, and I’ll try again. I’m annoyed.
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 that our plane had been taken for someone’s checkride. So perhaps I’ll fly to Lawton tomorrow.
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 “ball”. Table tennis has a ball and paddles (instead of racquets), and is just like tennis except everything’s smaller and the court is usually stored in the basement. Volleyball is like badminton, which, as stated earlier, is like tennis, but without any racquets and with…
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 finished.