I’m done with Dash 8 systems class, CSI, and I passed my oral exam yesterday. The best part about that is I’m done with Phoenix for awhile. I’ve got today off, and I head to Vancouver tomorrow to start simulator training. Since Verizon will charge me a million dollars to use my telephone in Canada, I won’t be bothering to turn my phone on. I hope the internets at the hotel are good. Fortunately, the USD is worth more than the Loonie again. I spent awhile today working on callouts with Jonah. I’m a bit worried about the simulator because…
I just got my simulator schedule. I’ve posted it to my Google Calendar. I’m going to be in Vancouver from March 15 – March 30. Sims will be late at night, so I’ll be doing a lot of sleeping during the day. My written test is tomorrow. Then boring nonsense until Friday. I get to go home, then come back for a few days next week for CSI and oral.
Apparently I was asking far too many detailed questions about Dash systems in class. I like to know how everything works, but everyone else in the class is busy struggling with the basics. This is nothing new in life. Yesterday, my instructor spontaneously and with no obvious provocation turned to me and asked, “What’s Avogadro’s number?” Without missing a beat, or really thinking about it, I spouted out, “6.022 x 10^23”. A split second after I said it, I realized that the question had nothing to do Dash 8 systems, at least in any obvious sense. “Why?” I asked. “I…
Berck hasn’t been very talkative, but this seems like the most efficient way of letting everyone know things. He’s got his favorite instructor, so not much to complain about there. His roommate moved out, so he has a whole house to himself. Unfortunately, he has to share it with a myriad of dead crickets on the floors and the occasional gigantic roach that shows up. His bed has wheels on it that makes it move across the floor whenever he turns over. He talked the driver who picked him up from the airport late Sunday night to stop by Wal-Mart…