SWEET

Flew twice this week plus a sim session, the sim is pretty sweet, and quite disorienting. You never know which instrument is going to fail next, and you don't have your inner ear to give you a sense of motion. Valentines weekend alway sucks when you're single, nuff said. but tomorrow i'm going to a 21'st birthday party for one of my friends, and I've got some jack D. stowed for the occasion, maybe it will turn out fun. i'm also going to the gym, potentially with my woommate - thats always good for a laugh. 

airplanes, cows, and physics.

HAVEN'T posted anything in a long time, maybe i'll start writing in here more, it just kinda slipped my mind for about 3 months. 

Anyway, i got my first flight in a Diamond DA-40 today, and it was friggin' awesome. Took off at about 4:30 PM and most of the flight was at night, so that's always fun. my instructor also made me spend most of the flight under the hood, because i am working on my instrument.  Its pretty easy to fly instruments with a G1000, just like a video game. the DA-40 is to the Cessna 172 what a Maserati is to the Volvo 240.

My brother Russell called me the other day and said his boss has a fresh batch of young bulls that need to be castrated soon, so i'm going to go to centerville sometime in the next few weeks and get a taste of what real men do for a living, I can't wait. Things like that are the advantages of having a brother who's a vet. You basically stick the bull in a chute so it can't escape, and you get an instrument that looks kind of like a pair of vicegrips, except with a razor blade instead of just a regular clamp. You just, to use a Georgia expression, "Grab it n' growl" .. meaning, rip that sack open and evict some boys. 

As far as classes go, everything is good but Physics SUCKS. i cannot wait to be done with it, because its a load of bullshit. I have to spend 6 hours a week in class for just that one class, and thats not counting the shit I have to do outside of class. he good thing is the only classes besides physics are philosophy, theory of flight, and instrument ground, which are all really easy, plus my actual flying. So if i can figure out a way to get an A in physics with minimal effort, I'll be happy. 

Awesome Flight

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Great Idea.

Haven't posted in a while.. it's easy to forget about. I've recently become addicted to the facebook game Farmville. And I hate to tell you, chris, it's getting a little tiring. I'm trying to keep my crops on a regular rotation and i'm probably going to start planting more long term crops so I don't have to check it so often. Tonight I'm going to play some tackle football next to the airport, which will be freaking awesome. 

OK here's the great idea. Last night I came across something I had never considered before.       

http://www.skytec-engineering.de/hpa.html 

- human powered flight. Thats right, someone pedaled one of these sons-of-bitches across the english channel. I am really excited by this. A few years back my brother bicycled up and down the east coast to raise money for childhood cancer research. His original idea was to ride across america to combat childhood obesity. 

I think I might be able to realize Austin's original goal of biking across the country to battle childhood obesity. Except I would much rather do it through the air. Physical fitness is something that has completely fallen by the wayside in our society, and what child's imagination wouldn't be captured by a flying bike? This could not only combat childhood obesity, but be used to raise awareness about being healthy and active for everyone. 

We (humans) invented airframes capable of flight before we invented engines capable of generating adequate thrust to make them fly. Only very recently have we invented materials light enough to allow human powered flight. As a consequence this genre of flying machine is still totally undeveloped. I think a safe, reliable, man-powered machine could be developed for a reasonably cheap price. And I think an organization/company willing to sponsor a trans-continental human-powered flight "for a cause" can most definitely be found. 

WOW

Its 0045, i'm about to go to bed - which means my woommate is also about to go to bed. His bedtime snack? A bigass bag of doritos, skittles, and a 20 oz. Mt. dew voltage. No wonder he's a fatass. 

In other news, my airplanes engine was kind of fucked up so I've got to find another one. I want an aerobatic plane, or a tailwheel. the tailwheel would be great because i need to build time towards my possible bush flying future. I watched the Hangover tonight - incredibly badass movie. And I'm really hungry but the dining hall doesn't open until 7 A.M. - and i'll be asleep then. Ahhhh college. 

Woommate Woes

My woommate, is a fuckhead. He's fat, he can't say his rrrrr's, and he's one weirdass motherfucker. He's driving me crazy!!! Let me describe in detail.-

Every day, he gets back to our room after class and begins studying, around 5 or 6 PM. He DOES-NOT-MOVE from his spot until about an hour after I go to bed. I usually try to go to bed around 11, PM. When I go to bed he turns off the fluorescent light in the room and turns on his desk light, presumedly to be polite. If the fluorescent light is a 10 on a scale of brightness, then the desk light is about a 7. I can't sleep through it. 

This would seem to be a small pwoblem, my woommate just needs to go to the study room, which is conveniently located about 50 feet fwom ouw woom. Howevew, he seems to have a social feaw of studying whewe people can see him, oow something, because evewy time I have suggested this to him, he has refused. 

The good news is whenever I give him an ultimatum, which goes something like this "Hey Bryan, either go to bed or go study somewhere else." He immediately turns off the light and goes to bed. The bad news is I don't want to have to bitch at him every night - it's a pain in the ass. 

I just don't know why I couldn't have had a cool woommate, instead of a fatass loser with a speech impediment. 

SO another option coming down the pipeline, there is an airplane for sale in McMinnville for $10,000, which is dirt cheap for an airplane. My dad seems to be highly interested in buying it, letting me build some hours, and selling it for  profit. This is an awesome idea to me because he will also be wanting to rent a hangar to keep the plane in, and airplane hangars are quite roomy. I might just set up a couch, fridge, TV, and coffee table, build myself a plywood closet, and move into the hangar. The airport is about 5 mins from campus. Biggest obstacle to this idea - Hangars don't usually come with bathrooms. Being an ambitious person, I think this obstacle may be surpassable.....