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As you may have guessed my long absence has led me to the conclusion that I will not be returning to podcasting. Those of you who link to the hotelcoffee website on your own blogs may update your lin

A quick update. My primary student and I haven't flown together in a few weeks, although he has been out flying solo a bit. That's fine because he needs to get some solo time in. My instrument stude

I flew a new (for me) Cherokee Archer out of PAO today, N81034. I've tended to shy away from the planes with "all numbers" call signs for some reason; I think I was afraid the call signs would be les

Are you just a little too infatuated with aviation, bored because of a slow day at work, or just incredibly nerdish when you change all of your Blackberry audio files (including ringtones and system s

Since my goal for 2007 is to go completely paperless, I'm being a lot more paranoid than usual about reliable storage and backups (and I'm already a lot more paranoid than most people). After a lot o

Dave and I have just arrived

So, I had a phone interview with Ram Air Freight based in RDU yesterday. The guy

Many people asked for pictures of the work done on our house, so here they are. This includes the painting, the tankless hot water heater, the new window, and the new gutters. We aren't quite

While I'm sitting here in Boston with little to do, I'm sorting through my pictures for the year. I figured it was finally time to post some of them.

Tuesday morning came early because of a charter flight I agreed to accept only the night before. A recently-soloed student pilot I was to fly with that morning agreed to fly on his own. As for my afte

For those of you who know Justin L (C3B dancer from MIT), you may not know that he's been taking flying lessons from me for the past few months. He just soloed on Monday, and did an excellent job. T

I'm not sure if I'll return to regular blogging yet, but you've all been phenomenally supportive, so I will give you an update. First off, despite the increasing unbelievability of this blog, the

I plan to not go near a PC until Tuesday at earl

Dave and I have just arrived

[Update: added pictures. Chuck -- I couldn't figure out how to make my camera include a timestamp actually on the image, but it's in the picture file's metadata, so I can Photoshop them in, but that

Sorry about that... I accidentally hit "publish" midway through my writeup about the x-c. I've taken it down so I can finish it. Please bear with me!

Tuesday morning came early because of a charter flight I agreed to accept only the night before. A recently-soloed student pilot I was to fly with that morning agreed to fly on his own. As for my afte

I ment to post this last week.... or maybe it was the week before. It is always good to highlight companies that support former military.

1. Union Pacific
2. Home Depot
3. John

I'm sitting here in the Dallas airport amidst the bustle of holiday travel activities and realize that this is my 100th post. What a milestone. On another happy note, even though weather in most of

I plan to not go near a PC until Tuesday at earliest. So, everyone have a good holiday. Here's hoping Santa doesn't bust the