Pennsylvania

All right.  Mother Nature did cooperate for once, somehow.  Nathan and Steve took off in the Aerostar this morning, and I was pulling into the airport and saw them fly about right over my head.  It was a nice sight, and made me smile.  I was a little surprised, as I assumed I'd be flying the Aerostar and Nathan would take the Cheyenne, but he got out there early and got everything ready, and the Aerostar is slower, so since he was ready, he launched first.  It worked out perfectly.  I beat them there still, but not by a ton.  The timing was great. 

The flight over, I was alone, with the tunes on, at 27,000'.  The only things that kept it from being relaxing were 1) my GPS failed and came up and said basically "Use other Navigation".  The interesting and informative thing to me was that my iPad GPS failed too.  All my GPS navigation went out all at once.  That told me it's most likely a bad antenna.  I only know that from it happening in the 340.  It took me by surprise the first time.  It won't take me by surprise again.  ;)  The GPS came back on after almost 2 minutes, which doesn't sound like a long time, but it's longer than you think when you're doing over 400 mph and now don't have a way to properly navigate.  I was getting ready to set up victor airways and VORs when it came back on line, thankfully.   I was more concerned about having to shoot an RNAV approach into Pennsylvania, and having that happen, but the ceilings were JUST good enough for me to do a visual, and if I had to, they did have a Localizer approach on the other runway.  So it was all good.  Oh, and as for not being relaxing #2), the left engine was doing that thing where it loses torque, and then the right engine did it too.  So you can't help but look at it and hope it keeps on humming along like it has been.  It did.  I reported it to the mechanic and I'm sure they'll dig into it.  I'd even managed to get a little video clip of it doing it, which the mechanic appreciated. 

We got in the Aerostar, and Nathan rode in the back and Steve and I up front.  We stopped at Muncie to have lunch, and I had bacon and eggs and toast.  Good Stuff, man.  A nice break-up of the day.  Nathan flew us home from there.

I got my walking done, got my correspondence caught up, got some phone calls made and kitchen picked up.  You know...stuff!  Tomorrow Steve has fasting blood work, so he can't eat after 8 pm.  Evenings are the hardest time for both of us to not snack.  So we went out to Grindstone's, and I'll try not to snack in front of him later.  ;)  I actually had a fillet, and broccoli, and fruit.  I'm going to weigh tomorrow, so I didn't want anything too salty that might retain pesky water.  ;)

The Meijer food delivery went well.  They showed up when they were supposed to.  The lady who brought me all the groceries though, she was older, maybe late 50s early 60s, heavy, had a bum leg or foot, and here she is hauling my groceries in from the car on the street a few bags at a time.  I felt rather guilty about the whole thing.  She got paid, and a tip, and I'm sure she appreciates the money she's making, but gosh, I did that because I didn't feel great yesterday, and she was in worse shape than I was!  It's too expensive to do regularly.  But it's nice to have as an option for those times you just can't get out and need something.

Kaylee texted me last night, asked me a question about grammar.  I answered her, and she said "The campus offers a writing lab help thing, but, like, who needs that when I have you!"  I said she does better on her own than 90% of adults.  She said "I did have a Teacher's Assistant with a Masters in English correct one of my papers, and she didn't find anything wrong with my paper.  She said I probably could've used two paragraphs to explain a certain topic instead of the one that I used.  But I only did one because it was a single topic.  So that's just a personal preference, not actually incorrect on my part.  She spoke in class about how there were a ton of errors with commas and comma splices and stuff--but not in mine!  Ha ha."  I said "Isn't it nice when a Masters in English can't really find anything wrong with your paper?  I'm proud.  Lol"  She said "Thank you, you taught me well."  So, Mom, you taught me, I taught her.  It's not a terrible thing to pass on, I'd say.  ;) 

Photos from today.  Proof again that there IS blue sky up there somewhere.

Keeping it classy, Kokomo

Blue skies, smilin' at me, nothin' but blue skies, do I see...

Except I can't see.

That was blinding for awhile, but I'm really not complaining.

That's never a good thing to see at 27,000' while GPS direct.

Night time panel is cooler, but I still like daytime panel too.

In between layers now.

Gumby on the way home.

Steve stayed awake most of the time.  Just not all the time.  So I still got 'em. ;)

A little view of the Cheyenne skimming the tops for about 3 seconds.