'Bout Time

Been a while since I've really been on a good flight lately, being laid off really put a damper on things. However, I have returned.

Had a great uneventful trip up north.
Utah Lake

Turned around and had another one to revive my true Taco Tuesday roots in Lake Powell,
this is no Del Taco folks...

I'm getting that itch to be on the lake again...

Easy as...

...pie.

Provo on a Sunday afternoon.

Blast You VIPPERMAN!

I've been called out, three times now, why must you make me think?

1. The first time I broke someones window while playing sports outside was a couple of months ago, I still maintain a non-guilty plea based on a witnesses statement, "there was already a crack in it".

2. I over analyze and think waaay too much about certain things. Geez, you'd think I'd have things figured out by now...

3. As an infant, my sister, at the brave age of 7, fought off a cow that was sure to eat me whilst on Assay Creek.

4. I like to keep everything else in my life, other than my room, clean.

5. I've beat Halo 3 a few times, it's a double digit number.

6. Totally have seen Air Force One, yes the real one.

7. Decided not to eat McDonald's for at least a year, despite the rumors of Ronald and I's engagement and ultimate break up.

8. I fear success and ultimate happiness, do they exist in my world? Who knows.

9. Women's shirts and pants are often too short for me, and frankly, I'm pissed.

10. I never really imagined completing college or getting married, that *might* coincide with #8.

11. I'm absolutely sure to rearrange the order of these notes before submission, can't have too many short ones together.

12. I loath country music and Carson City, the same amount.

13. I love my 80's music and ice cream.

14. Pretty sure I'll never get good enough to do things I want to do on a longboard, wakeboard, surfboard, and snowboard. I'm destined for mediocre and I hate that. But I can sure grease the hell out of 10 knot crosswind.

15. I used to yell into the country side on Becky's bridge by her house, unknown to her. Ha ha.

16. Buried my volleyball knee pads in lava rocks during 8th grade, that may have been the REAL reason why I didn't play. Ha ha. I do enjoy some beach volleyball though.

17. One day, I'd love to have more than $100,000 in student loans. I can eat, sleep, and breath sarcasm all day.

18. People underestimate my remembrance ability and abuse it.

19. I want to visit, and possibly move to Iceland despite their recent government problems, I'm going to pursue gnomes.

24. I don't want to count to 25.

25. I've been faster on a motorcycle than in any of the planes I've personally flown.

I got a new moving prop picture capturing device

Oh the joys of taking pictures with a cell phone.

It never gets old.

JP-7 Preferably

Citation into PHX

This is what I'm aspiring to, if the economy and world will give me a chance. Hell if I can get into something with cup holders and something that takes some form of Jet fuel, I think I'll be ok.

Willkommen 2009

You know what 2009 will bring? A pile of poop. Ha ha, just read it.

#764

Deadly icicles outside my window, pretty awesome, I know.

On the ice in the Arctic of Utah.

Reason #764: Hangar space.

Snow days snow days!

There is something serene about the lights of Vegas at midnight, even if it was captured on a cell phone. Anyway, we desperately needed to go to Vegas before the "storm" hit, so the night before it's arrival we fled, as bumpy as it was. After being denied into Mccarren, we ended up in Northtown, we flirted with the idea of hitting Nellis AFB, but at this point I just wanted to go home.

Thankfully on the way back, we had an awesome tailwind, which bumped our ground speed up to 168 knots, that's 193 MPH for you groundies. You never get that in any normal conditions with the can I fly, we usually average 100, 110 knots on a GOOD day. Which should tell you how fast the winds were, cold front pushing it's way through. Oh, and never mind the blur, cell phone and turbulence.

Anywho, since that first initial storm last Saturday, every other day we get a gorgeous dump of new powder, usually around 4 inches. I made a snow angel before work yesterday and plan to make another in the morn. Ah, gotta love global warming, eh? If I haven't said it enough, this storm is awesome! They closed Vegas airports for a bit and diverted them up to SLC, we had an emergency divert come in to Cedar on their way to Northtown due to low fuel, ceilings were dropping fast, they made it just in time. Good times. Oh and they canceled school in St. George because Vegas is having the worst snow fall in 30 years (3 inches so far), they're just anticipating. I do love it, it's so exciting.

In case anyone was serious about my new VLJ (my toy, very light jet), the Eclipse. You can pick them up for around $1.2 mil, not bad considering they are worth $2.6. I'm just saying (clearance sale, they filed Chapter 11). But if you're REALLY REALLY serious, I'll take a Gulfstream, $20 mil on a good day, or a little cruiser Cirrus for $400,000. I'm pretty picky about colors too. I'll give you a ride, for free. Just pay for fuel. Ha ha.

Enjoy your holidays folks.

My list

What I want for Christmas, any takers? They'll be on sale. December was lonely.

I don't know how many of you have had an opportunity or patience to watch clouds build, generally they're slow and subtle. But on a moist and convective afternoon, anything is possible. The best seat in the house is obviously a mile above beloved earth, and only a few thousand few away from it. I could stare at clouds for hours watching them build, expanding effortlessly. Like smoke billowing out of some center, core of billowing possibilities. And of course it's miraculous ability to exude that very pillow, fluffy shape. As soft as they look, they're one of the most dangerous, like murderous bunnies.




The sultry air of the Tucson valley, yes sultry. Not sexy, just hot and sweaty.

Oh and I don't know what you all do on Thanksgiving besides eat your heart out, but we roll with fireworks, good ones. Come 'round for Christmas, we do the same.