Looking forward

Did some real cool stuff past few days.

1. Blog. like Log, everyone loves a Blog.
2. Test taking abilities. Although never really got better, my study skills did. I obtained a nice grade on a hard test today. It's awsome.
3. Working out from habit. Like where this is going, people have been pointing out that I'm now a "light weight". Ummmm, ok.
4. Whistler. You'll get some pictures, don't worry. And no, I didn't go to ski/snowboard, I was there to rock and roll.
5. Biking. Last week. Got a great pic of the view that day.
6. Studied. Not cool, but productive. And that in itself is cool.
7. SF-0. My first back seat flight in the Prowler. Got a little queezy but it was hella-fun.

Looking forward to a few things:

1. Posting pics. They say a thousand words you know...
2. Baby girl is coming!!!! Less than a week. So so excited.
3. Possible Opera this Sunday.
4. Back seat flights.
5. Knowing my aircraft. Knowledge is powa!
6. More workouts. Addicted to the burn...
7. Babies!!! For almost a full month!!!

MMMMM good.

PC load letter?

I just spent the last two hours trying to change the format of my blog so It had larger boarders for text, pics, ect. Now it looks like, well like before I edited it.

uhhhhhh.......



On another note, I found out today Zach and I will be getting squashed through the last of our NT's in less than time allotted so we can make Fam/Nav classes on Monday. How awsome is that? Not as awsome as the picture to your left.


Looking forward to a week filled with double fisting.... just not beers.

Rough times at Oak Harbor

These are the pictures from my most fabulous Saturday so far in this month of February. My weekend technically started on Wed. night as my sim partner and I found out we had nothing to do on Thursday. Very relaxing to hear when you've been working your butt off the past few months. I got to hang out with some friends on Wed. and do a little catchup and the ol' Brown. I need to mention at this point that the week has been sunny and mid forties. This is unheard of in the NW. So I most definitely got my moneys worth in sun time. I've been training for a half marathon in April so my runs for the most part have been on treadmill. Luckily I got a chance to run around the beautiful Skagit county this week and it my friends, is what life is all about.

Back to the weekend. Thursday night turned into a long time coming 80's night. It certainly was a hoot and a hollar. I did enjoy my time, even when we were a group of three and I was the sober driver. We obtained some good pictures, you can check them out on myspace(me, Zach, and Robyn). Friday was a lazy day, Zach and I just hung out and enjoyed the view of skyline and some delish chicken pasta and then battlefront dos. A nice relaxing day.

Sat morning came quick, and I barely made in on our boat for the fishing trip we planned for 6 months now. We took a nice little charter with our fond acquaintance, "The Salmonator". He took us out right beyond skyline and then we began trolling on three reels, with a depth at around 100 fathoms give or take. Don't I sound like a fisherman now? We ended up keeping 4 out of the 6 we caught, and we had 2 others that got away from our poor performance in reeling. Poor Shaun came up short in the group and didn't get himself a fish. You can see him above drowning his sorrows in more than one cocktail. This leads me into Sat night, as we started a bit earlier than most. While taking a nap after the fishing adventure, the rest of the group went to the Brown L. and began ordering drinks(tap ended up being 21 jueger bombs and an odd assortment of other drinks creating a +200$ bill). Silly boys. If you think I miss this extravaganza, you guessed wrong friend. I did get to take part in that 21st shot in the mix. The boys now are slurring and very loud, and I am very hungry so I pull them away from Brown to the El Jinette for some quesadillas(mmmm). Unfortunately nothing changed and they continued to order a butt load of drinks. Luckily I am pleasantly surprised(not really, we coordinated) by Johnny G. for some food and convo. When we finally have our fill of mexican fiesta, it's time to back to the Brown for a pitcher and then a short walk to the Watertown for a live band and fun/frivolity that ensues.

After a few hours of dancing and carrying on, it's just Nick and I(The other boys had callings elsewhere) and the time is only 1130! We are extremely tired and want to go home. As we look around we realize that nobody else wants to leave since it's only 1130 and we both agree that it was quite a day and time to put it in the history books. We call up a cab and head home, ending a great day even for a seasoned man such as myself.

Sunday was an early morning for my SDO turnover. Then I wait for Nick to wake up so I can get my car and go workout before the SUPABOWL. Marcus' house was a gala event like usual and a great turnout. Shaun was up early too cookin some of his delish bbq(my fingers still smell like it). Did my barracks inspection and called it a night. Let's not forget about my qt with the baby. Which I am about to have a bit more right now.

Forecast calls for gloom and a week that I have no idea what will happen to my sim partner and I. We became super behind in the push to get us to FAM/NAV because of our days off, so who knows eh? We shall see......

Goodnight and good luck.

Slacker malacker

You could say that I have been a slacker in my bloggin over the past few weeks. You could also say that I've had quite a lot of experiences to talk about as well, which wouldn't disqualify me in writing up a blog or few. Yet you can also say that I could count the number of people who read my blog on one hand. Lucky for me, those few people count for much more than ordinary blog enthusiests. So for your viewing pleasure I bring back my blog in full force. Included with pictures and all. Enjoy everyone!

Pic info:

1. Picture of the pitch(BCU rugby field). Rugby excites me.

2-4. Whistler/Blackcomb. Oh that was fun. Best skiing by far.

Gainful Grope

A new term my fellow aviators and I made from training. Probably something you'd find funny if you were there. Anyways, been real lazy on my blog, only because I'm usually busy doing something, or trying to relax. It's a tough life really.

I got some pictures from snowboarding last tuesday. The new face pic on the right along with my blog "face lift" is one of those pictures. Please enjoy....

It was a Delight!

Look at these views!

Last night I sadly made my goodbye hugs and kisses(and some more hugs... and kisses ;) and flew back from the wonderful P-cola. I had a fine thanksgiving with my Siggy(significant other) and her family. Also spent some time with my family and friends and her family's friends at her engagement party. It's so funny, a lot of her family friends have sons and daughters getting married in the next year and I've seen a lot of them in the past 6 months. It's like I'm buddy buddy with a lot of the fathers, and some of them have quite a sense of humor. I also got to meet some of the lady's friends from school, what a fantastic bunch. We all ended up going to Seville Q. after the party had subsided, and danced like superstars. Then a little Awful Waffle to end the most excellent night. As a side, Brooksy, one of the baber's friends came back from his drive home to bama to return baber's coat and preceded to give us a ride home, a decent amount of min. out of his way. What a good friend!

The rest of the weekend was a lot of qt, just what we needed. I was sad to leave but happy to see her again in 3 weeks. I am looking forward.

On to the crappy drive back. Pretty much everything went smoothly, I got my car in good time, and got a little lost trying to get onto the highway. This is when things went awry. I started hearing this whighing noise from the back of the car, and got higher pitched with speed. The steering wasn't compromised and I didn't see any smoke so somewhat dismissed it. Then it got really loud and the car started moving differently. Turns out I blew a tire, the same tire that my mechanic warned me about. My bad, I was supposed to get new tires a few thousand miles ago. So sue me.

Changed the tire, got home at an awful 4AM west coast time. It took me 5 minutes to get up the road I live on(only a few hundred feet) because nobody plowed the roads in Skyline. I finally got up my driveway, and had a bad feeling about the traction since there was snow on the driveway. My thoughts were correct and I watched as my car swiftly slid down my driveway into the road. I had reservations about parking in the street, but looking out now it seems that we aren't really a priority to plows(still snow on the road).

They ended up closing the base, and I got to sleep in(yay!) I spent the remainder bumming around and wanting to get tires on my car. At this point in my blog, you will see my text to abruptly end so I can accomplish that.

Enjoy my pictures!

Holy tsunami!

Last night I had no idea but there was a tsunami warning in our area! They canceled it this morning and I found out from our instructor, crazy stuff. Right now the winds are in gusting in excess of 50mph and the power is out in Whidbey. Thankfully not in A-town so I can finally write in my blog. Unfortunately I get to stand my PSWO watch regardless, but it's at 8 instead of 4, and until 12am. Fantastical! At least I get some Wednesday dinner over Zach's, I'll just need my flashlight and some candles.

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