There’s nothing like some crappy weather and a salaried flying job to make your day. I was about to walk out of the house when my cell phone rang. It was one of the guys in white flight letting me know that the first go was canceled and not go into work. There’s a list of phone numbers activated by the flight commander. He calls the first guy, who calls the next guy, and so on. I’ve managed to lose my list already, but I was pretty sure I was on the bottom of it. I asked the guy who…
I awoke this morning to the doorbell. Then some knocking. I wasn’t dressed, so I didn’t answer, but then the phone rang. It was our landlord informing me that our downstairs neighbor was complaining about our water heater leaking. He was out of town, so I had to wait around for the plumber to call. Indeed, the water heater was running (it’s a very loud monster), which it doesn’t do unless someone’s just taken a shower, and Berck had been gone for hours. I figured out how to turn the water to it off, but I couldn’t figure out how…
But not for lack of trying. Mostly I’ve been given the easiest students so far, but they’re getting progressively harder. I think I’m going to wind up with full-blown new cadets next week. I’ve already screwed up. I got completely confused in the traffic pattern by the tower, and ended up turning about 1,000 feet in front of a plane I didn’t see and then thought was going somewhere else, but which my student had told the tower he had in sight, even though he was looking at someone else entirely. My flight commander was in a plane just behind…
Today I * Fixed Michele’s laptop wireless connection so it would talk to her desktop * Sent a change of address message to all of the people who e-mailed Duncan to his old e-mail address since August 1 to use his new e-mail address * Searched through Michele’s cumulative notes for specific contacts in Colorado * Converted scanned documents through OCR into word processing documents and combined them into single documents * Picked a bunch of rosehips The last task was by far the most fun (and was, of course, on my own time). Michele has been using a bunch…
I had a busy day yesterday. My interview at CBA seemed to go really well. They actually went ahead with the second phase of the interview process, which involved some testing, both a SAT-like written test and a computer aptitude test. For the computer test, I had to answer five questions by finding the answers in the CBA website (most of them I already knew the answers to because I know CBA). The second part of the test was fiddling with an Excel spreadsheet and then extrapolating the data into a PowerPoint slide presentation with graphs and such. Fortunately, I…