haven't blogged in a while...

Well I know that I haven't been on here in a while to say much of anything... but I think that I have been too busy with flying to really do much of anything else! Well the other reason to the lack of blogs has been the fact that our internet has been down for about 3 days or so. Hopefully we will get it up and running tonight. Will write more when I have time, just wanted everyone to know that I was alive and well.

DirectTV Represents...

I took off work today to visit with the DirectTV guy that was coming by to fix the neighbors cable... well he fixed it for free! Well not really, the only fee that is left is that on Friday there is going to be a guy that comes out to bury the cable for about 100 dollars. Well that is a small drop in the bucket compared to what I thought that it was going to cost. So today was a good day, took the day off, didn't have to pay anything yet for the repair work on the Dish Sat... all is well. Hope that everyone else had an uneventful Wednesday!

Gonna spend about 300 dollars to save 200...

I don't really know how much my "handy work" is going to cost until Wednesday!!! Handy work refers to the trench that I dug in the yard to bury our Dish Sat. cord. The Dish worker told Les and I that it was going to cost about 200 dollars to bury the cable in the yard, well I thought that I would save the money and dig it myself, bad idea!!! Well I get our cable buried and thought that everything was fine, till Les called me while I was flying yesterday and said that she had a conversation with our next door neighbor about their Dish not getting any signal after I had started my digging! Well I came home and dug up our cord and the next door ladies cord, and I think that I found the problem... I cut her cord when I had jammed my shovel into the ground... well a Dish tech is coming out on Wed. to look her stuff over and Les and I will be paying for the visit it looks like, WOOHOO. Thank goodness that I can fly an airplane, cause manual labor sure doesn't look to be my thing.

I know that arson is unlawful but...

Does anyone want to set some fires for me this weekend??? Not really, I am just real anxious to fly... don't want anyone to go to jail on my behalf, but I sure hope some stuff catches on fire right quick and in a hurry!!! It has been a long last couple of days... I know that everyone that reads this blog puts up with me talking about aviation, but bear with me on this one. This is why the last couple of days have been such a drag... When I get to actually fly the twin-engine airplane at work... I only get to fly if there are any fires that we have to go and put out. No fires, no fly. Well to make matters worse, the trailer, that we are staying in between going out flying on fires has a piss-poor excuse for an air conditioner... it was 91 degrees in there the other day and 90 yesterday! Our supervisor over there, the one that flys with me... won't let us taxi the airplanes over to the actual nice pilots lounge that the have on the other side of the airport!!! Well my boss told me that he was going to make some phone calls to try and get it to where we are sitting inside in the A/C and lounging on recliners, rather then sitting in that sauna of a place that we were staying in. Well hope that everyone else has a cooler weekend then I do...

Finally moved...

Last night we finally took down and moved all of our belongings from the house that we were renting in M-town... thank you Jesus that is finally over and done with. Les ran into some problems yesterday when we were getting Dish Network connected at the house... I have to dig up and bury 100 feet of cable... not really looking forward to that. Well fire season is officially here, have to fly today from 11a.m. to about 6p.m., sure wish that it wasn't 100 deg. outside and our airplanes had some A/C! Well Les and I will be able to blog some more in the near future when we finally get our internet connected.

changed the name of my blog....

I didn't realize that Chelle and I had the same title for our blogs, so I changed mine to Cross-wind Chaos... figured that was a pretty good title for me. I don't know how to change it on other peoples blogs to read "Cross-wind Chaos" so someone will have to help me with that.

Cell phone upgrades and shoe store lost and founds...

Well thank goodness my two years on my current cell phone have come and gone as of the 11th of August!!! It seems that my Sony Ericsson phone has finally given up the ghost, sorry Chelle... I knew that you wanted a phone w/ some Bluetooth! I was getting ready to call Les this afternoon, flipped open the phone, the main screen is white... no info no picture, nothing. Well the phone still makes calls, I just have to remember what button combo does what to pull peoples names up. Well I was pretty depressed about the phone then I got a phone call that the shoe store that Les and I had gone to in Rogers, Ar had found my sunglasses today in the lost and found, so at least that was pretty nice... well hope that everyone had a better day then I did!

All is well now... wait I lost my sunglasses!!!

Well I know that everyone that reads my blog reads my wifes, so here goes... she was right, I was wrong! Well all was well after that brief argument while shopping, then I ended up losing my very expensive Ray-Ban sunglasses! I have no clue what happened to them, they could be anywhere... except for here at the house! Maybe it is best that I don't have a bunch of expensive things as this would happen alot more. Always seems that you lose the things that are the most valuable and the stuff that isn't worth a thing seems to stick around for years! Well hopefully I won't lose anything in the next 48 hours till Les and I get home to Malvern!!!

Long week

This sure has been a long week for both Les and myself. We are in the process of getting things ready to move to Sheridan, which we are both excited about! We just aren't very excited about the actual moving part!!! Well it has been a pretty long week for other reasons too, my favorite baseball team (Texas Rangers) made some pretty big trades at the trade deadline in baseball! That probably doesn't mean anything to you guys, but it is kinda hard these days in professional sports to get comfortable with certain players staying on your fave team for their entire careers. A couple of players this week were inducted into the baseball hall of fame this week (Cal Ripen and Tony Gwynn) that played for the same team for their entire careers! I think that is the way that I would do it, if I would have ever played professional sports. Hope that everyone has had an excellent week...