It's perfect weather outside, and at LAST!  I am off to the used book sale at the library!!!!!  I missed last year's and this year, of course, my team and I are doing serious battle with the EC130 that's been sitting in our shop for over a year.  We're so close to getting it out of the shop and on its way to get painted and sent on back to its home ( Read more... )

I've just gotten in from aerial class- I typically go Tuesdays and Thursdays (Sundays too sometimes, if I've missed a day during the week).  I learned a new drop tonight on the fabric, and revisited a couple of old ones.  Cranked out 5 pull-ups on the trapeze bar (sad, I know, but when I started going back in early March I couldn't even do one- and ( Read more... )

I've had a nutty couple of weeks.  The internet was down for about a week or so, (and to be honest, I debated for a while as to whether or not to just cancel it- it can be such a time-waster for me!!), and I've been working.  A lot.  However, I did eventually get off my butt and get the internet fixed, and we did eventually get rid of our previous ( Read more... )

A preview of other pics to come:


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I feel like I spent most of my week stuffed into the tail boom of the aircraft.  I didn't, of course, but I did spend a lot of time there on Thursday and Friday, and part of yesterday as well.  And there's still more to do on Monday.  Sigh.  Actually, the worst part, hands down, was the install.

( In which I spend lots of time pretzled into various uncomfortable positions and wondering who decided this aircraft mechanic thing sounded like a good career idea )

...but instead had to work today.  Happily, it's the first Saturday I've had to work since late February, so that's a plus.  But it signals the start of another furious round on the treadmill that has been my job this year.

We have an RTS date for our current aircraft- a drop-in that arrived four weeks ago for inspections.  We're shooting to have it ( Read more... )

How many ways do I hate DST??  That, I will say, was the one thing Arizona did right- no "reset your clocks arbitrarily" because really!!!  It's the same amount of daylight either way.  You're not gaining and hour, or losing an hour, you're just taking that hour of daylight that yesterday was at the beginning of the day and putting it at the end.  ( Read more... )

Today: the only guy in the shop more klutzy and accident-prone than I am reclaimed the title of "Most Recently Injured" by falling down the stairs outside the hangar (it was icy) and breaking his collarbone.

I previously had held the aforementioned title thanks to a spectacularly idiotic move- about a month ago I was making a smoothie for breakfast ( Read more... )

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My aerial coach is moving to Vancouver, which is exciting for her, and crappy for me.  We really got along, I liked her style of teaching, and she pushed me.  I really felt like I was improving under her, and now I have to start over and try to find a new coach.  I'd gone to several before her, and nobody really clicked.  But I tried a new place ( Read more... )