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I went hang gliding yesterday and enjoyed it. My flight instructor was a nice older gentleman named Fred. He was a contractor of WindSports. I thought he did a great job of taking me up for a beginner tandem flight. I got a bit of motion sickness but our flight was only around 15 minutes so it wasn’t bad.… read more “Hang Gliding at Sylmar”

 

Mind vs matter.

 

In a close game where we led most of the way, we ended up losing by two points. We only had five players so by the fourth quarter we were all gassed, but everyone continued to play hard and battle for the ball. On the last play of the game McVerry got a great rebound and gave it to me and I chucked it downcourt to Hugo who did not have enough time to get a shot off.

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Read this.

Apparently to make a point about these sequestration cuts, the Obama administration has only two air traffic controllers working right now at Los Angeles International Airport. There are hundreds of flights and tens of thousands of people across America stuck on idling airplanes right now. The Obama administration made a giant mistake by making this a political football.… read more “Obama Administration Loses Again”

Obama furloughed air traffic controllers in a politically motivated move that has caused me to lose a great deal of respect for him. He should have made the cuts to social security or homeland security or TSA…. those are all massively bloated bureaucratic agencies. Cutting air traffic controllers will just mess up flights and piss off millions of people.… read more “Obama Furloughs Air Traffic Controllers And Loses My Support”

The last four days spent in Austin Texas have been very interesting and informative. I have learned quote a bit about the city. Here are a few tidbits:

1. People here drink a lot. Half of the city seems to come out to the bars on the weekends and almost everyone I saw as I walked around was drinking.… read more “Austin Texas General Observations”

Kenny convinced me to get the upgrade at Avis for this trip. Fun car!