I'm getting old, and I need something to rely on...

These last few weeks haven't been too bad. The first weekend of the month, I was home for a weekend to attend my 2nd of seven weddings I'm going to this summer. The two who were getting married were my friend Dan and his (now) wife Jenni. I met Dan through another friend, Tim, who I've known for about 7 years now. Anyway, it was a really nice ceremony, and afterwards at the reception they had a live band, which my friend Tim and a couple of my other friends played at. Anyway, they needed someone to run the sound system, so I reprised my role as sound guy for the first time in about 2 years. It was a blast. Anyway, since Tim was not only playing in the band but also in the wedding party, his fiance, whose name is also Jen, had no one to go with, so she called me up the night before and asked if I wanted to be her date, which was fun as well. I also dress myself. God I love having good taste.

This last trip I went on was one where I flew out of Atlanta quite a bit. I have some good friends who live down there whom I haven't gotten to see in quite awhile, so on one of my overnights we all got together and hung out. It was pretty sweet really.

Not too much to report other than that really. I've kinda gotten screwed on my June schedule cause I have only two days off between my trips, which means there's not a lot of time to go places and do things. Oh well. I'll survive.

Speaking of survival, I would recommend reading First They Killed My Father by Loung Ung. It's a novel about surviving the Pol Pot regime in Cambodia in the late seventies. It's really a moving and compelling story.

Since my last post regarding this books, which was April 1st, I have read:
A Short History of Nearly Everything – Bill Bryson
The House on Mango Street – Sandra Cisneros
The Hobbit – J.R.R. Tolkien
Into the Wild – Jon Krakauer
The Things They Carried – Tim O’Brien
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone – J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets – J.K. Rowling
Things Fall Apart – Chinua Achebe
First They Killed My Father – Loung Ung
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban – J.K. Rowling

All really good books. The last Harry Potter book comes out in July, so I'm trying to read them all before that, so I'm re-caught up on the whole story.

Easy as 1-2-3, Simple as Do-Re-Mi

Well, another month has come and gone and I have slacked in my blogging. It's been a pretty full month. The biggest thing that prolly happened was my 10 days off towards the end of the month, in which a LOT of stuff happened. First off, my little brother graduated from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Can't tell you how old that makes me feel, but we're all very proud of him.
The next day, I celebrated my 25th birthday. Holy crap. I'm getting old. I know, I know, Bebe. I don't get to say how old I am/feel. I got some pretty good stuff, mostly cash. Which was expected and always appreciated. I was also looking over my logbook, and found that that weekend (the 18th, 19th, 20th, 21st) has had quite a bit of stuff happen in the past. The 18th of May, 2000 was the day I got my Private Pilot certificate, thus serving as my entrance into the aviation world. The 19th of May, 2006, was when I heard that I was accepted for employment at SkyWest. The 20th of 2006 and 2007 are my friends Sarah and Casey's wedding anniversary and my brother's graduation, respectively, and the 21st is my birthday. Quite a packed couple of days.

The day after my birthday, my friend Ben and I went hiking along the north shore of Lake Superior. We were joined by our good friend Chris, who works in Duluth and happened to have the days off that we were going up there. We hiked between Gooseberry Falls and Split Rock Lighthouse, which is about 14 miles of hiking over two days. We camped out there too, which was awesome. I love camping.

The rest of the week was pretty uneventful, until the weekend when I went ot my college roommate's wedding. It was great to see people, and we had a lot of fun at the ceremony, which was held in Stillwater, about 30 minutes from the Twin Cities.


I also, just for the heck of it went to a site that I heard about, www.politicalcompass.org. This site has you answer a few pages of questions, then plots your answers on a graph to show where you stand politically. I'm happy to report that I am a Social Libertarian and well as an Economic Leftest, which puts me in the same area as the Dali Lama, Nelson Mandela, and Ghandi. Good old G.W. is on the complete other side of the scale from me. Woot. (My exact points on the graph are Economic Left/Right: -6.38
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -5.08
for anyone who wants to compare themselves with the greatness of me.)
That's it for right now, but I'll try to be a little better about this. In the meantime,

"Don't worry if your jobs are small, and your rewards are few,
Remember that the mighty oak, was once a nut like you." -Anon.