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I am now, officially, an FAA-certificated* Airframe and Powerplant Mechanic. I just flew back from a two-week crash course in Nashville (and boy are my arms tired!) and I have to say that I have never studied for anything so hard in my entire life. Ever. I must have gone through 30 [...]

No, I have not become a fan of the Florida Gators. Apparently, some of my wife’s coworkers do not believe her when she tells them that I have alligators at work. Well, we do. We have two small retention ponds on the property, and this particular one is about 20 yards behind [...]

I just finished my first week at my new job in Florida. The work isn’t harder than I expected, but it is a lot harder than my previous job. That’s probably because I’m not just the new guy at the new job, I’m also way behind the power curve with regards to my [...]

Heather and I left San Antonio this morning, finally. I’m writing this from a hotel just outside of Lake Charles, Louisiana. Heather and I are taking our time getting to Florida, so we have planned to spend the night in Louisiana and Pensacola along the way. We went to a casino in [...]

Moving sure does suck, but I can’t even begin to imagine how much more it would suck if I actually had to do any of it myself.
On Tuesday, the packers (not the ones from Green Bay, the ones from my moving company) came to the apartment and started packing up all of my stuff in [...]

Well, it’s been a month since my last update, and it’s been pretty busy for me. Once the whole holiday thing ended, it was time to get to work! Heather and I have decided to forego the stress of packing up all of our stuff and just let the movers do it. [...]

This was supposed to be my long, bi-monthly blog post, but I just can’t remember anything before last week.  Perhaps that’s because I spent last week in Jacksonville, Florida looking for a place to live, since I start my new job as a helicopter mechanic on February 5th.  For those that are interested, they finally [...]

Well, it’s been two more months and I’m still too lazy t post regular updates “as they happen.”  I’m sorry about that, really I am.  But anyway, at least I’m predictable, yeah?

My birthday is coming up on October 12th, and I’m going to be 35.  That feels weird.
I flew back to Washington, DC in the [...]

I’ve not posted anything to my blog in two months, so my life must be pretty boring, eh?  Either that or I’m terribly lazy.  I’ll let the reader decide.  Anyway, working up from the past, here is what has been going with me:

Heather and I went on Vacation to Playa del Carmen again.  We went [...]

I’ve not posted recently, even though things have been happening.  Shame on me!  So here’s a quick update:

I went to Washington, D.C., for a couple of days at the end of May to take care of another requirement for my possible new job in Florida.  I also got a heads up from a friend of [...]