Cleaning House...
Wow, it's been a while, so here's a general house cleaning post.
I wish it was summer again, just so I can go swingin' again.
A few weeks ago, I had the first bird strike of my flying career. It happened as I was on base about to turn final (see diagram below) at Grand Forks:
I was doing about 80 knots coming into land, my instructor had his head down looking at the floorboards, when all of a sudden we heard a loud hollow "thunk" on the windshield. This is what was there when we got out:
How that bird managed to fly right through the propeller arc and manage to wrap himself directly around the outside air temperature probe, I have no idea. It was pretty funny, when you get back in a UND aircraft after a flight, you have to call dispatch and tell them that you are back, and whether or not you have any discrepancies. My instructor called up dispatch and said "Dispatch, Sioux 84 back no discrepancies, but we did hit a bird." Within about two minutes, both line fueling trucks and one of the tugs had shown up around my airplane to take pictures and say "Nice work man, you skewered that sucker!"
The Twins. Am I disappointed that they didn't make it to the playoffs? Yes. But I can't be too disappointed, because noone, including me, expected them to come anywhere close to the playoffs, and they managed to force a one game playoff.
The Tampa Bay Rays. The Tampa Bay Rays are my second favorite baseball team, and I am kicking myself for not making a post about them around March, because I called them making the playoffs back then, and noone in the house believed me.
The Detroit Lions. If you didn't know, my favorite football team is the Detroit Lions. So far they're 0-5. Better luck next year.
And finally on Sunday, in Grand Forks of all places, I found the VHS tape I've been looking for for years. On a whim, I stopped at a Big Dollar Store that I drove past the night before, because it looked like it had been turned into a thrift store with lots of random crap.
When I stopped there, it turns out that it had been turned into a consignment auction "house", and while they were having an auction, the also had three of four thousand ex-rental VHS tapes for sale. They were in boxes arranged on shelves in a large L. I started midway point through the first leg of the L, looking for just one tape. I finished that leg of the L, went around to the other leg of the L, and I had no luck finding it. I was finding copies of The Wizard, The Wizard Of Speed And Time, Soviet Sex Spies starring Linda Hamilton, and various other mid-80's movies. But no Rad. I assumed that someone had beaten me to it, and that I would have to continue searching for many more years. I wandered back to the small section of the L that I had bypassed earlier, and began looking through the boxes there, still not expecting to find it. And then, in the last box I could have possibly looked, there it was. Rad.
The price? $1.00
I wish it was summer again, just so I can go swingin' again.
A few weeks ago, I had the first bird strike of my flying career. It happened as I was on base about to turn final (see diagram below) at Grand Forks:
I was doing about 80 knots coming into land, my instructor had his head down looking at the floorboards, when all of a sudden we heard a loud hollow "thunk" on the windshield. This is what was there when we got out:
How that bird managed to fly right through the propeller arc and manage to wrap himself directly around the outside air temperature probe, I have no idea. It was pretty funny, when you get back in a UND aircraft after a flight, you have to call dispatch and tell them that you are back, and whether or not you have any discrepancies. My instructor called up dispatch and said "Dispatch, Sioux 84 back no discrepancies, but we did hit a bird." Within about two minutes, both line fueling trucks and one of the tugs had shown up around my airplane to take pictures and say "Nice work man, you skewered that sucker!"
The Twins. Am I disappointed that they didn't make it to the playoffs? Yes. But I can't be too disappointed, because noone, including me, expected them to come anywhere close to the playoffs, and they managed to force a one game playoff.
The Tampa Bay Rays. The Tampa Bay Rays are my second favorite baseball team, and I am kicking myself for not making a post about them around March, because I called them making the playoffs back then, and noone in the house believed me.
The Detroit Lions. If you didn't know, my favorite football team is the Detroit Lions. So far they're 0-5. Better luck next year.
And finally on Sunday, in Grand Forks of all places, I found the VHS tape I've been looking for for years. On a whim, I stopped at a Big Dollar Store that I drove past the night before, because it looked like it had been turned into a thrift store with lots of random crap.
When I stopped there, it turns out that it had been turned into a consignment auction "house", and while they were having an auction, the also had three of four thousand ex-rental VHS tapes for sale. They were in boxes arranged on shelves in a large L. I started midway point through the first leg of the L, looking for just one tape. I finished that leg of the L, went around to the other leg of the L, and I had no luck finding it. I was finding copies of The Wizard, The Wizard Of Speed And Time, Soviet Sex Spies starring Linda Hamilton, and various other mid-80's movies. But no Rad. I assumed that someone had beaten me to it, and that I would have to continue searching for many more years. I wandered back to the small section of the L that I had bypassed earlier, and began looking through the boxes there, still not expecting to find it. And then, in the last box I could have possibly looked, there it was. Rad.
The price? $1.00
posted by AP at 8:19 AM
1 Comments:
Here is your next quest: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092085/
Find it on Beta.
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