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I've been in a giving mood all day. I gave out around 7AM and took a nice little nap, then around 11, I decided to get up and give the news a chance. After thoroughly depressing and pointless blather for around ten minutes, I decided to give Comedy Central a chance, and found a program that was entertaining enough for me to eat breakfast to.

I gave my plants some water before I got ready to leave this morning. Then some crack-whore who had a disposition to NOT use her indicators cut me off, so I gave her a piece of my mind. I gave up trying to honk, I only got phone numbers in the past, not results.

It's unfortunate that I didn't get to fly today. The weather was low again today, and both of my students are working on Private, so no go. Looks the same for AM tomorrow, but hopefully I will get some time in with them by the end of the week. It is supposed to be hella windy tomorrow afternoon, and one of my students is supposed to learn landings, so I have a feeling I won't get two flights tomorrow, hopefully at least one though. We'll just have to see.

So far my flight instruction has been more ground and simulator instruction. Both of my students finished their groundschool Tuesday, and I was hoping to hit the flying hard and get them through their solo by the end of the month, but the weather is starting to catch up to the season, so I'm kinda at odds about what to do. I think it's better and much easier for them if I can at least get them in the sim every few days if not in a plane, but even to talk to them about flight stuff when we can't do that is better than nothing.

Saw III comes out tomorrow, and the woman wants to go see it, but I doubt that I will be able to go until Sunday. She says she is going by herself. YEAH, WHATEVER.

They served free beer today at a work function. (Not at the school.) It was weird, and though I'm not against alcohol at all, I'm no alcoholic, and I didn't think it very professional for that to be served on the premises when people were working. To me, the line of work that I'm in, that just isn't conducive to positive customer rapport.

But anyways...

--R.

Rain

The weather here is crap today. No fly weather, even for flies. I headed out to the airport today aroud noon, had a few hours to go over weather stuff with my students, then called it a day. Probably won't even go to the airport tomorrow, even crappier weather with a strong chance for thunderstorm activity. Such a waste.

I had to move all of my plants in this past week, as the temperature has dropped of significantly. I hate moving my stuff inside for winter for the simple fact that I always get these little bugs that fly around and bug me. I need to spray all of my plants down, I guess, but it always seems to only work for a few days, then I'm back to the bug problem. Any ideas/suggestions?

I'm hoping that the weather clears in the next few days. I've got so many flights scheduled for the rest of the week that I'd like to get in the air at least once. Now that both of my students are out of ground school, their schedule is open, and I'm trying my best to get some flight time in with them. I'm ready to fly, and I know they are too. It gets old sometimes going over ground stuff for hours on end.

I'm really happy that I got the opportunity to teach at the school, I like it there very much, and am thoroughly satisified that I didn't get what I wanted at first. Where I am at now is much better, and a more conducive environment to flight training. I'm looking forward to many happy memories from there.

--R.

Reconstruction

After carefully reviewing my safety options, I decided against posting the ubiquitous 'first post,' and decided instead on posting something a little less trite. Perhaps a little less exciting, I opted today to instead post about Saturday gardening, an oft-forgot, neglected trade.

I had a friend, not close, but a friend nonetheless who frequently gardened on Saturday. She wasn't very good at it, her soil was always terribly weeded, coarse, and improperly drained, but she gave it a noble effort. I found her intriguing because though she knew she would never be any John Deere, she never let her critics disparage her plot, always on the defensive.

I recently learned of her death, and my naming to be the recipient of her plot off of Seventy-sixth, in the public peace area. I went not too long ago to inspect my new responsibility, and was amazed at the level of commitment she had. I've always respected the decision in the forties to establish public peace areas, and find it soothing to be able to enjoy nature and flora.

It is the responsibility of the living to preserve the past for the future, and though I'm sure I'll kill everything in the plot, I find it imperative to perpetuate the simplicity and beauty of her plot and her futile efforts at gardening excellence, if only to accentuate the importance of individual equanimity through husbandry.

--R.