Good One

Productive day! First, I renewed my driver's license online. It expires in March. You can do it every other time online, so I was able to do it for the first time today. It was pretty easy, and should be coming in the mail soon. While I'm at it, I also renewed my passport online. It's a new program. The only hard part for me was getting a photo. You have to use a recent photo with a white background and very specific parameters, like no selfies, certain distance away, no shadows, no backgrounds, no photoshop edits of the background to take it out, etc. I didn't have one, so I tried to take one. Long story short, it did not work at all. So I went to Walgreens for them to take one, and they charged me $24 and it was a terrible job. Bad quality, they photoshopped out something anyway, had pixels showing, and the lighting was really bad too, and it was just ugly. So when I got home I had Steve take one, and THAT worked. Still not a great photo, but that's more because of how I look than because of his photo taking 'skills'.  But I by George got it done and submitted and signed up for text alerts. My new passport should be arriving 4-6 weeks, they say. I don't need it for anything that I know of coming up, but it expires in November and I'm not going to let it expire, because I never know when one of the clients are going to want to go somewhere interesting where I might need the passport. 

This morning I met up with Morgan and Isabel for coffee at Panera. We just met up and hung out for an hour and a half or so. Isabel used to work for us, left to go be a wife and mom. Brought her 3 month old son along, a tiny little dude, pretty laid-back. We hadn't seen her in person in over a year, so it was good to reconnect a bit. She seems to be doing well, and happy.

We didn't eat, though, so next up was lunch with me, Nathan, Morgan, Steve, AE, Ty and Chuck. I have more to talk about with the old pilots than I do Isabel, so that was a little more relaxing and normal, but it was good to do both. :)

Came home and did three loads of laundry to catch up from our trip and such, downloaded all my photos, sent off receipts and billing, updated logbook and plane logbook, did all the things.

Finished in time to go out to the airport at 6 pm for the EAA meeting, with about 30 folks there. VFR and IFR "Clubs", dinner (chili), a quick EAA meeting, and then a talk from Dave J. about fractional pilot (FlexJets) jobs, how it works, the pros and cons. It was an interesting talk and evening. I didn't get home until after 10 pm. So it was a full day, actually, got a lot done, felt pretty good about getting my official documentation caught up the most...it's also the year for my CFI renewal, but I can't get it done this early, will have to wait for April...

Did forget to get my Gatoraide while I was at Walgreens though. I guess I'll have to hit it or a CVS in the next couple of days. ;)