Bruised but thankful

What a weekend! Four days of fun and rest. It seems I get less sleep on the weekend than I do during the week. Thanks cousins. Friday I slept in and watched the old standby Star-Trek, read a book and then took a nap. It was great. I woke up from the nap and a few minutes later my Mike S. called and wanted me to come up and spend the night at his house because he was bored. Got there around six and a couple of my siblings arrived later. Its always good to see family. Our family is like no other family I know. The cousins are closer to each other than alot of siblings are to one another. The bruises my body bares are more than I have had in many days. Considering my usual actives, i.e. sitting in a classroom or standing in lab, its a lot more than normal.

I withstood the force of two men and a very strong teenager. They were trying to throw me into the pool, I did not want to get wet, so I fought them until we all wore out. I felt like throwing up after we were done because of all the exertion.

Pastor preached very well on Sunday, no surprise. What I got out of it? We all have goals in mind and most of those goals are in the future. Get a college degree, become a pilot, have a family, you fill in what your own goals and aspirations are. Basically we want to do Gods will for our lives. We think that our purpose is found in those goals, that God created us to accomplish the things we are striving for. Consider this. What if I never live to see those goals come to their final end. What if I never finish my pilot training. It is conceivable that I could die in a airplane crash, car accident, or be killed in any other sort of way or the Lord could come back to take us home. So if my focus is on the big picture and I am not worried about my every day life how will I live? What I am driving at is, I can be and tend to be unconcerned with my spiritual walk every day. The temptation is, " I'll put aside these habits or start those habits when I get into the ministry. Well what if I never get into the "ministry"? I should all ready be in the ministry! God gives me one day at a time and I am never sure if I get tomorrow. So I must live each day with eternity in mind not five years from now not ten, but live with the thought I may see Heaven today! So my life will not be wasted on something that may not even happen. Prepare for what God will have you to do but do not focus your energy on the future but focus on the present and serve God with your life today.

Thursday is Friday

No school tomorrow and no work. Four whole days of nothing to do but dream all day and when the sun goes down its time to play. Getting together with a family will consist of theology, baseball, streetfighter, magic, possible a card game or two, food and more food, not necessarily nutritious food, lava man, airsoft, trampoline, and possible a water fight. The fun we have is always enjoyable.
I just broke 80 hours total time. Not a milestone but a stepping stone. have a safe and enjoyable holiday. Yours for cheaper gas and smaller government.

Flying the height of the country

I had a great last weekend and this is what happend.

We left on Saturday morning at three thirty in the morning for Rayville, Louisiana. We stopped in Indiana twice, Missouri once and Arkansas once. When we landaed in Missouri we discovered we had a broken magneto. There are two mags for every engine; so if one dies you can keep flying. Good thing because I was at the controls when it broke. I heared the engine get little rougher and we adjusted the mixture(fuel to air ratio) and it helped a little. We were at ten thousand five so we thought it might be the atmosphere. So we were delayed by about an hour and a half. We were able to get so good tips and advice from the mechanic that helped us out. From there we flew about two and half hours to Arkansas were Thad got out and took a test flight in a Baron(a turbo charged twin engine). He was looking at buying it for his dads business. He wont though because the guy flys it like he stole it and various other reasons. Nev and I meet up with Thad in Rayville Louisiana, were we inspected the Baron and tried to implement the skills we have been learning. We looked like we knew what we were doing but did we? Well yes and no. Thads Dad then took us all to San Miguel's, Probably spelled wrong, were I had the best fijaitas ever. I get a smile and hungry just thinking about it. HMMMMM!! What do you do when you have been flying for nine hours and have just eaten a large Mexican meal. Go flying for another hour but not just flying, fun flying. For security purposes I can not divludge the exact details of our flight but it was a blast. Then it was nap time for a short half hour and back t0 the air for the return trip. I flew the first leg to the Cape(Missouri). We tried top get a hotel but every place was booked solid, tournaments and weddings or so the said, so we went back to the airport and tried to sleep in a wrecked airplane that has very nice reclining seats but it was locked. The fuel truck on the other hand was not, so Thad and I slept in the truck while Nev slept in the airplane. About and hour and half later we left landed and and fueled up on gas and coffee in Indiana then stopped in Goshen for a bathroom brake. Then continued on to Lowell and arrived there at about seven thirty in the morning. A total of eighteen point one hours in the airplane. A whole lot of fun and a lot less sleep. That was my weekend and it was fun.

PAY DAY

I am convinced that most paydays are on Thursday because it helps encourage people at the end of the week. you have pay day and then you have Friday. it does for me;

i probably wont get much sleep because were watching the pistons beat the bulls tonight.

there is a grilling out party going on at the apartments this Saturday and i am thinking about going unless the cousins call and want to do something. better call cousins or i may call y'all on Friday.

i started face book and have found all kinds of people i know. the Internet is a very good way to network. no pun intended. i really need to go flying. flying is the only drug that the government wont put you in jail for getting high on. i don't mean altitude high either. it is a real rush. though the difference between the flying drug and others is some people get sick, scared, or it is just boring. i feel so sorry for those people. there is a freedom in flying and it acts a great stress reliever. i am very relaxed but focused while i fly.

we have two four day weeks in a row coming up and a four day weekend in the middle. no work or school those days and that will be indescribably wonderful. it has been a long time since i have had school and work off on the same day.

i was writing above about flying and i will be next Monday and maybe more during the week. I will be safety pilot for a fellow who is working on his instrument rating. very cool. I will get to log hours and that is what I need; presently have about 73 hours total time. a mere pittance to what is required for the commercial ticket. all in good time. well i gots to go eat some food and then go to work. yea for the first boo for the second.

so much info, so little brain

Well I am back from a long week to start another long week. Same song but about the two-hundredth and something verse. I have eighty-nine days to graduation. The end is in sight and the bill is overdue. Well I think it is overdue but the Lords timing is best. I slept well this weekend and it really helps start the week off right.

Played some basketball today and I still have a little talent; have to revive all those old moves and school some boys. LOL. I wish I could play more often, I really miss the fun of the game.

Preached yesterday and it was not the best I have every done. I tried to tackle a pretty deep topic and I think I kinda bounced off.

Sat in the classroom for most of the day and tried to learn about magnetos, thermal efficiency and fuel injection systems. I know the theory pretty well but the troubleshooting is a more difficult aspect to grasp.

Have to get ready for the Super Janitor job. I am a SUPER HERO by night. Makes for a very busy schedule.

Fry day

My brain is fried and I feel like doing nothing. I am so glad I do not have to go to school tomorrow. I have had a problem lately with motivation; it is very bad because I must learn as much as I can. There is so much to know in this industry and I have so little space left in my brain. You would think with all the technology today we would be able to format part of the brain and start over saving worth will stuff. You know the one sided conversations where you just listened; basically a waste of time. Usefully space that needs to be cleaned. Or stupid movies that you really wished you had not watched (I think I would start formatting the Napoleon Dynamite memory area first). Or that time your parents left you at church to teach you a lesson about coming when they call (Still have nightmares about that). Girlfriend brake- ups, get rid of those. The list is endless. This is a resource just waiting to be tapped; free money. People would flock to have portions of their memory erased. The CIA would want it. We could empty the prisons; and make them all soldiers, they could all be reformed. Naturally we would have to work over the political scene. Talk about word domination; all in the name of increased learning ability. This will work people.

well enough of my pinky and the brain ranting.

The trifecta has the engine torn down, ahead of everyone else. Trifecta is my group, Mikey Ryan and I. Best team there is in school. NO ARGUMENTS PLEASE.

Have to go to work and be the super janitor that I am. Its a tough job that someone has to do.

be back Monday

Ryan and I flew over to GRF and practiced the light gun test at lunch today. No it was not the plane above. I will have no trouble passing. I have to pass it in order to be able to meet one requirement for my commercial license; not that I am even close to getting my commercial ticket but hey its a step in the forward direction. I really wish I could build hours while I am in school but such is life and patience is a virtue.

I have no idea what I am going to do after school is out. I would like a to get a job working on planes but if the school bill is not paid then I have no license and no license means less money and longer time to pay off debt for school and longer to wait to fly. Oh, the puzzles of life!! I guess I'll cross that bridge, wherever God builds it, when I come to it. Again patience is a virtue.