Whew, I am le tired. I've been flying a lot the past few days. It's mostly been with students, but today I had a couple of excellent sightseer flights as well- my favourite ( Read more... )

Aite! With eagle.ca's assistance I've been given a new phone number to dial into; apparently my modem likes their modems a lot better, because I can connect at around 19.2K now, which is like light-speed after the past few days. On the downside, I disconnect every five minutes or so thanks to our damn dirty apes phone lines. But Bell has been ( Read more... )

Whew, my poor desktop, it's definitely got issues. We installed a new modem yesterday (hardware, because software modems suck on country phone lines) and it's STILL just crawling, connection speed-wise. It can barely connect above 12K. WAT ( Read more... )

Typing this from the tea shop - I've got another burned-out modem in my desktop from the looks of it. Fffffuuuuuck no. I go through about one modem every eight to twelve months. The problem is our phone lines are so bad out here in the boonies that power surges wreck havoc on our phones and modems. You can hear the shit crackling on the lines when ( Read more... )

Watching Geoffrey Rush play Peter Sellers playing Dr Strangelove is so screwed up, but SO GOOD, HAHAHA. WHAT IN THE NAME OF GOD'S GREEN MOTHERFUCKER.

I'm watching The Life and Death of Peter Sellers on the late night movie, and it's really rather good. It's also completely surreal, and I gather that Sellers' son described the book it was based ( Read more... )

I got the ferry job! It was a nice flight. I was a little wary of the plane at first after hearing it had sat on the ramp without being flown for nine months, but after thoroughly draining the rust and water from the sumps/strainer, a long walkaround and filling the tanks I was a lot happier with it ( Read more... )

Oh man, so tireddd. It's not even that I had a terribly busy day today either- just one new student in the morning, a young girl. It was an easy lesson too, the very first one on attitudes and movements, easy to teach and nice because I still do a lot of the flying, unlike when I go flying with a more advanced student. But the rest of the day ( Read more... )

Hahaha, this isn't my main journal, but it'll do! I've got half a dozen of these things scattered all over the place anyway, one for every occasion ( Read more... )