Dodging

I'm typing this listening to the rain hit the deck roof and the thunder roll slowly and almost constantly.  Per our original plan, I would be halfway home from Missouri at this moment, which would pose a problem both in the line of storms moving through that part of Missouri and the area of storms moving through Indiana, both.  As it was, at 6 a.m. I got up and looked at the weather, realized that if we left ASAP we should be able to beat the weather into Missouri and the weather into Kokomo both.  So I didn't even take a shower.  I threw on some clothes, freshened up a bit, put on a face and ran out the door, hopped in the airplane as soon as I could get there, and went.  It was already starting to build up, but it was easy to go around.  When we landed, I didn't even shut the airplane down.  The winds were starting to shift a little and the weather wasn't far off, a few sprinkles already hitting the windshield, so the gent I was picking up just came on board with the engines turning and we took right back off.  This one was uneventful.  Once we were clear of the building up area, which again was easily navigated around, it was clear sailing home.  Well, not VMC, but clear as far as storms go anyway. 

The weather at Kokomo was overcast, so we needed to shoot an approach in. The winds are 160, and D says "There's an RNAV 14".  My mind halted for a second and then I said "No, there's no RNAV approach for 14."  He pulled it up on his iPad and said "There is."  I pulled it up on the GPS, and sure enough, it was in the database.  I pull it up on my iPad...the approach was originated Sept. 19th, just a couple weeks ago.  I'll be jiggered, we have a whole new approach out here.  So D calls up and asks for the RNAV 14 approach into Kokomo.  Grissom comes back and says "You want what?"  He repeats it.  They say "There's no RNAV 14 approach into Kokomo."  LOL  D calls in and says "There is, it's a new approach."  The guy comes back and says "I have the book in front of me valid through Oct. 8th and there's no RNAV 14 approach."  So I got on the radio and said "The approach came out Sept. 19th, which may have been after the BOOKS had been published, but people with digital updates may well ask you for it, and it'll be in the next book."  He went away for awhile as we set up for the ILS 23 instead.  Finally he came back and said "Well, now that I've adjusted my glasses, would you like the RNAV 14 now?"  So we did it just to do it.  None of us knew how to pronounce any of the waypoints.  D went at it the one way you'd have to shoot the whole hold.  The controller didn't know the approach well enough to know that we had to shoot the hold so he thought we were doing it for fun.  He had other traffic coming into GUS, and we were interfering with that, so he made us actually hold on the hold longer to get his other guy in, and then he cleared us for the approach after we'd made a turn to go around again. I just hit vectors to final, got back on the final approach course instead of going all the way around again, and went on it.  It was a bit clusterish.  ;)  GUS then thanked us a couple of times for pointing out the new approach.  It was kind of funny.

What wasn't funny was that I woke up and my head was stuffy, and I was in such a hurry I didn't think about it and didn't think to take an allergy pill, and when we climbed up to altitude, my head felt like it had a spike in it to my brain stem.  Hurt like nuts.  After about 15 minutes of being on the ground, the pressure subsided a great deal.  As soon as I got home I took an allergy pill and I was fine.  Darned new to me seasonal allergies--I'm not used to having allergies yet. 

I was in my car on the way home and the guy was talking about how chicken nuggets were made up of 40-50% chicken muscle tissue and the rest fat, cartilage and bone chunks, and I actually gagged.  I already knew this, but hearing the explicit words, my stomach was already rolling a little bit, and that about did me in.  He said the words "fat" and "chunks", and I about obliged him.  :D  I swear, I really am never eating another chicken nugget again.  I will eat chicken strips with real chicken, but I am all done on nuggets, from anywhere.  For good.  SO so SO nasty.  Urk.

Steve has a really busy day and probably won't be back until late this afternoon to early evening.  I was up and at 'em early, but I think I have from noon on here that I don't have anything I have to do.  Kaylee's playing Mincecraft, the cats are inside away from the scary storms, the ground is getting the drink it needed, and I'm not in the middle of it trying to get home, so all in all, I think we'll call it good.

Oh, on a lark I took a personality color test, based off of you picking which colors made you feel 'best'.  I'm not usually a fan of color tests, but this one took 30 seconds tops, and it was there, so why not.  Like most of these, including horoscopes, there are things that could be true about just about anybody universally, but here's what it said, in abbreviated version:

"Needs excitement and stimulation. Willingly participates in activities that are thrilling and offer adventure.  Wants to live life to the fullest and experience as much as possible. She cannot stand any restrictions or obstacles put in her way and only longs to be free.  Feels she can carry more than her share of problems. She is flexible and laid back, sticking to her goals and working to overcome any difficulty. If motivated, she will easily and quickly learn new skills. Can be a very intense person who seeks excitement and stimulation. Wants others to see her as an exciting and interesting person, who is also charming and can easily influence others. Longs for the freedom to make her own decisions and plans without the criticism and restrictions of others."

There you go.  I guess that's what "teal over orange" means, or something like that.  ;)