Whoops

This morning I woke up even before my alarm went off at 5:30 a.m. My internal alarm clock needs to reset itself just a bit so that rather than waking up at least 30 minutes early, it is just about on time. There is little more annoying than waking up and knowing you are going to doze off again just in time to have to get up!

Anyway, I made it up, dressed and showered right as Chuck was pulling into my driveway to take us to Grissom Air Reserve Base to go on a KC-135 tanker refueling mission flight. It was still dark when he came, but by the time we got there a little early at 6:30 a.m., the sky was finally light. We pulled up to the gate, and the guard said "We don't know anything about this; usually they give us notice." So Chuck gave him the paper and we gave him our IDs, and we pulled aside and waited for him to get his act together and let us in. Unfortunately, it didn't work out that way. Instead, he came back and said "You do realize this flight is for the 4th, right? Today is the 3rd." Neither Chuck nor I had noticed that the flight was on Wednesday, not Tuesday like the last flight. So we had to turn around and drive back home, having gotten up early for the fun of it. ;) We snickered about that off and on all the way home. I came home and laid down on the couch and passed back out for a couple of hours, and have been a big ball of droopy ever since! I guess that's good--if I can not get my second wind around 9 pm like I usually do, and stay tired and go to bed early, that will certainly help for getting up at 5:30 a.m. tomorrow morning again, for the real trip this time. Today was just a trial run, apparently. ;)

Kaylee spent her second day of summer shopping for tomato plants with Grandma & Grandpa, and going to get ice cream-one of her favorite pursuits. Then after lunch she came out to the airport with me, and we stayed until 6 p.m. while I entered time sheets, fuel sheets, pilot supplies, paid instructors, all that good stuff. The airplanes flew like crazy this month, and that's just really odd considering the cost of fuel and the state of the economy. You would think we would be really slow, but instead we are just booming. But we need to be booming when our last fuel bill at only One of three airports was in the five-digit realm. :O Kaylee did great at the office. She brought her Nintendo DS, drew pictures, and now we have a satellite TV out there and she can watch cartoons, too. Almost all the amenities of home, if we brought her out some food and drink to snack on, which I think we'll need to do for her next time...

Today I was trying (unsuccessfully) to catch up on my emails, when I came across one I'd saved that is titled "Seven Techniques for Overcoming the Tendency to Procrastinate". Of course the message was from two weeks ago and I hadn't gotten around to reading it yet...

Let's see. It stormed on my newly washed car (naturally), the Rat cat peed on the deck in multiple places (I do not want her in my house any more), Ann brought over some delicious chocolate eclair (I've already had mine, and Steve's is looking pretty good too!), I did get a lot done at the office (now I just have to fold, stuff, lick and mail after Steve prints and sorts), I've got that spot in my back that really hurts (feels like a nerve or a hot poker being stuck in my back and popping it isn't helping), Nathan has gone to California in the Baron (which makes it rather quiet around here), and Kaylee is insisting that tomorrow is Dulce's birthday and has set up a party in her own bathroom with toilet paper streamers she has decorated with markers, and a crown to go on Dulce's head. I gently tried to explain that cats don't generally like crowns, but Kaylee doesn't want to deal with that possibility, and Dulce is going to see for herself if she likes crowns or not. ;) That about concludes our day. Here are some quotes to end on...

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From a poster named D. Burns on an aviation board:

I had an audience watching me as I took the runway. It gave me some pride that I was doing something that most people never would do. Not because it makes me feel superior, but because it makes me feel special, like I'm part of a brethren. So my interests tend to be unusual, but when was the last time you heard someone say "Wow, you like baseball? That's so interesting! I've always wanted to try that."

"Real intelligence is a creative use of knowledge, not merely an accumulation of facts. The slow thinker who can finally come up with an idea of his own is more important to the world than a walking encyclopedia who hasn’t learned how to use information productively."
~D. Kenneth Winebrenner

"Faith untried may be true faith, but it is sure to be little faith, and it is likely to remain dwarfish so long as it is without trials."
~Charles Spurgeon