As you can tell I have not updated this blog for 5 months. The super abridged version of the past five months follows.
Early July: Loren became potty trained.
Mid August: Celebrated 11 years of marriage.
Late August: Went to Sea World San Antonio with the family and had a blast.
Mid September: My beloved dog of 8 years is diagnosed with splenic hermangiosarcoma.
Three days later: I have to take him to the vet and say goodbye because he cannot breathe without pain and cannot eat or drink.
Late September: I spread my wings and complete my bi-annual flight review allowing me to execute the privileges of my pilots license once more.
Early October: Took Andrew and Tracy for a flight in a rented plane. They loved it.
Late October: Tracy turns 6.
Halloween: We all dress as pirates!
Mid November: I bought a plane.
Late November: Andrew turns 8.
Which brings us to this month. I have been working more crazy than normal the last couple of months. Not that work is a good excuse to miss out on other stuff, but that’s what was happening. After tying up a few milestones at work, I took vacation from the 7th through today and did PIC’s 10 day instrument rating course. Today at 2pm I did my check ride and I am now an instrument rated pilot. I am also tired. In the last 10 days I have flown 30 hours in the plane and 9 in the simulator. Probably would have been more but the weather was really bad for three of the 10 days and we focused on ground instruction. Regardless I am looking forward to going back to work for a break from this intensive course. I think the course was great and would recommend it to anyone. But do not fool yourself, it is a lot of work.
