Photos are up in the gallery. Now that nachzen.net lives in the cloud (and even fronted by Cloudflare), the gallery should be reasonably fast. Even if still somewhat ugly and dated. I’d kind of abandoned it for awhile in favor of Google Photos because it was so slow, but I also hate that Google Photos doesn’t have a decent “here are all of my shared albums” front end. But it does have the ability to search photos with something other than whatever I might have tagged them with. I’ll try to migrate some of the Google Photo albums back to…
Berck said I should blog about my first flying lesson, since he did. Since he’s my instructor, maybe that’s a homework assignment? He also told me to read his post about his first lesson, and there’s a lot of similarities! We began the lesson by going through the checklist Berck created for the plane. I learned all where all the buttons I’m supposed to push and switches I’m supposed to flip to test are and where all the hinges, etc. I’m supposed to check are to make sure they’re not falling apart. Then we pulled the plane out of the…
Last weekend we borrowed one of Berck’s coworker’s plane and flew to San Jose to visit Dave and Sydney, who was in San Francisco for the weekend. Here are pictures. I typed up descriptions for some of them. Here is a short video of us shooting Marshall Pass (next to Monarch Pass). We could only fly up to 14,000 feet for 30 minutes without oxygen, so we’re as high as we’re legally allowed to be.
Saturday, August 2 Berck’s phone rang at 2:50 a.m. He answered it but no one was there. Then my phone immediately started ringing. Since my number is one after his, it seemed like something was calling every number. I don’t know if it was the motion sickness patch or because it was so early, but it was hard to get up. We had to get up early because the taxi was arriving at 6:45. The taxi ride was less than $9! It was $10 to park at the EAA event, $1 to ride the city bus, and $1.50 to ride…