Monday
Work.
Tuesday
Work.
Wednesday
Work.
Thursday
Took an hour off from work to go to the airport to provide some free consulting to the airport manager regarding his connectivity - or technically, at the moment, the lack thereof. As opposed to my "day job," it was nice to be able to do something that provided a positive, and immediate benefit to my "customer" and to me.
Sautéed a few onions and a yellow pepper which I then used to make a meatless Italian sausage sandwich. Amazing what MorningStar Farms has been able to create that tastes good and adds variety to our meals. Still, these ersatz meat products in a small way make me feel like I am cheating on the whole pescatarian thing. I know that technically I am not, but it always reminds me of the Jimmy Carter interview in Playboy where he cites Matthew 5:28 "But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart." So, does not eating a veggie burger constitute meatultry?
Actually remembered to take out the garbage and the recycling. Yea me!
Friday
Another day of early start after a late end from the previous day. As with the rest of the week, spent most of the day on teleconferences.
Really enjoyed my dinner of a baked, cheese topped meatless ball sandwich with sautéed peppers and onions.
But, this eating meals alone sucks. After walking just a few steps in Jeanie's shoes, I'm really thinking about all the time Jeanie has been alone over the last five years. I realize I am blessed to have a job at all, much less one that pays well, and that there are lots of people that must spend much more time away from their loved ones, in much worse conditions. Still, I have to ask myself.
Saturday
CAP monthly meeting. Flew the club plane for over an hour totally focused on proficiency work: steep turns, stalls, slow flight, regular, soft field, short field and power off landings. Picked up a rental car at the Fernandina Beach airport for next week. Had to rent the car on Saturday, even though I wasn't leaving until Sunday, because the Hertz counter at KFHB isn't open on Sundays.
Sunday
Jeanie was out of town, so I drove to Tampa where I will be working for the next two weeks rather than taking a commercial flight. Visited Mom on the way, and had a really nice visit. Drive wasn't too bad. Took about 4 1/2 hours. Drove through a really bad thunderstorm just west of Orlando. It rained so hard, I could barely see ahead. Fortunately, the car had a stereo with an Aux jack, so I could listen to tunes from my Creative Nomad Zen. It might be old and large, but it still gets the job done for me. Played with the two different TomTom GPS units I had purchased from Walmart.com - the TomTom One 140-S and the TomTom One 340 XLS. Basically, both units are functionally equivalent, other than the screen size. The 340, with its wider screen, has slightly better resolution, but because of this, while the text is slightly sharper, it is also slightly smaller. When all was said and done, I decided to keep the 140 because: I found it slightly easier to read when mounted on the windshield, it is a bit smaller, and it was less expensive. The only feature the 340 had that the 140 didn't was the ability to display the compass heading in degrees on the display - although technically, the 140 can, it's just that when you do, it makes the font size for all of the displayed items at the bottom of the screen a smaller font. I was able to mostly work around it by displaying the compass pointer, which displays in a different spot on the screen and thus does not reduce the font size, although it doesn't display the heading in degrees. In terms of things I really liked about both units: volume was nice and loud, and the integrated suction cup mount makes it so much easier to carry around when I travel compared to having a separate mount.
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Posted by David at August 02, 2009 11:03 PM | Categorized under: A day in the life