Dripping within tolerable limits

I've been working out lately. After looking at myself in the mirror and finding myself to be "softer" than I can handle, one of my new years goals was to firm it up and get some cardio and weights going. So far, I have worked my body at least every other day, except Saturday and Sundays. I may not get into shape as quickly by indulging myself on the weekends, but at least I am making forward progress.

The work schedule is in FULL swing at the moment. I'm facing a week full of VERY long days. Though I have been able to get others to assist in coverage, it's still going to be a "Ball Breaker." On the subject of breaking balls, I got a little testy (pun intended) with ASIG's ramp crew tonight. I get very upset when I have a 767 departing for Europe with less than an hour before it's due to depart...and I see ramp guys sleeping on the job instead of loading the plane. So, with my typical sarcastic yet boldly direct voice, I called a supervisor to "resolve" the situation. The big question is, if a supervisor is doing his job....that would of course be..."Supervision," would I still walk in on his crew members sleeping? From my early management classes, I believe the theory is that, good management has to start at the top.

Tonight, Bob, Dave and myself were all in the operations trailer together. Put the three of us together and you're going to have a laugh or two. The three of us share warped senses of humor...and even if nobody else around us finds our banter amusing, at least we get it. Speaking of getting it, I had no idea that the other airline reps were also as amused with pooping and farting as I am.

Call me a total geek. The other night, I watched "The Night They Saved Christmas" on "Free Movies On Demand." We've been paying out the anus for Cable and I finally discovered some of the features that we have access too. This movie is a really cheese ball 80's flick that I loved watching as a kid. I couldn't resist! Now, if only "On Demand" would make the movie "Rad" available!

Flying...I need to go flying again. The other day, I had a kick ass flight. The weather was perfect, which was great considering, I had not flown in over 2 months. I thought I was going to be sloppy and rusty. To my own surprise, I not only handled the airplane well, but I also landed quite smoothly 7 out of 7 times. Even though I took up N4601D which is really suffering, I still enjoyed the thrill of flight. Starting out that day, I was facing an aircraft with missing Avionics (no DME or GPS) and that was followed by a slow fuel leak coming from the left wing fuel sump. At no point did I compromise safety, a few drips per minute isn't a big deal, especially with a whole other tank on the right wing. I did however maintain constant awareness of the aircraft's position, and maintenance status as I really didn't feel like entering into the "snowball effect" and having an accident. After a few touch n go's, I popped over to Smoketown S37, to top off the wings and then flew back over to Lancaster LNS. Ahhh....just like the airlines, flying safely, despite mechanical problems. Somehow, I think that gave this flight a more exciting feeling. Regardless of nifty feelings...I still prefer to fly planes that are fully equipped and hold their fluids.

The Rice Mobile had an oil change yesterday. Normally, I'm pretty good about changing the oil every 3 to 6 thousand miles. I wasn't such a good boy this time around. I went over 10K miles in between oil changes and this time, I had very little oil left. Bad Honda Owner! Bad! On a brighter note...The car is still running because that is what Honda's do.

I should have taken a nap between flights. Damn...I'm feeling tired. I'm at 20 hours and I have another 6 to go before I can sleep (Best Case Scenario)