Guess I should add something to this. Let's see...what happened in the last week? Well the flight instructing's still going pretty slow. I can't complain still, not after what I went through the last three years. I help out around the school, mainly in the maintenance hangar, when I don't have any flying to do. Our school bought four acres to build a new facility on, and I got to mow it. I haven't mowed grass in years. I didn't know how much I missed it. Back in Indiana I grew up on 9 1/2 acres, and I had to mow about 1/4 of that every week with a tractor. I used to pretend the tractor was an airplane. It wasn't exactly a tractor I got to ride on last week, but it was close enough. It was like one of those self-propelled mowers with a seat towed behind it. It took a bit to get used to the differential steering, but I managed it. There were a couple other things, like the dirt and weeds down here are brutal when chopped up into dust. Even with full-blown safety goggles on, my eyes were red and in extreme pain at the end of the day. Still, it was fun, and took me back, and I'd like to do it again.
I got a new student last week as well, my second. This guy's a psychiatrist who's getting his license to overcome his uneasiness with flying. Pretty cool. I hope he ends up enjoying flying as much as I do.
Oh, and I beat Splinter Cell finally (the first one), after playing it on and off for a year. It was fun, but I thought the story was kind of lacking for a game with Tom Clancy's name on it. Still, I'm looking forward to playing the second one.
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