san diego

On my day off last week I took full advantage of my benefits and headed down to sunny San Diego! i flew down wednesday morning and back on thursday... simple 

as that :) 

i stayed with my pal josh, we had some mexican food, In and Out, played old school nintendo, went to the beach and checked out some caves, drove around the city and watched transformers. not a bad way to spend your day off. good times.

these are megans socks... she had to put them on when we got home the other day because spokane really has two seasons: summer and winter. i was really looking forward to the fall, but we went from 75 degree days to 35 degree days in about a week! its pretty cold outside but there are still the colors of fall, and i would rather it be cold than hot... cold is definitely better.

double trouble

i am finally done with my training for horizon, and am now an official "ramper." its so nice to have a consistent schedule now, even though i wake up at 4:00 am to be at work by 5:15 am, im done at 11:30 am, and ive got the rest of the day to myself... to get done whatever it is that i need to get done. i work friday, saturday, sunday and monday. (i traded my thursday morning shift with a guy for his monday afternoon shift... giving me a "double" on mondays)

so monday i worked my first double... i saw the sun rise from the ramp, and i saw the sun set from the ramp. 13.5 hours! my uncle larry is a mail-man and he's been getting up that early for years and working many shifts that long or longer... larry, you the man. thats tough, the reason it was probably so tough for me was because even though i tried going to bed at 10 pm... i didnt get to sleep until 1:00 am... (thats 3 hours of sleep o tizzle). so it will take my system a while to adapt to the new sleeping pattern.

im really happy with my job right now... we will see how much i like it, when i am deicing planes for 6 hours in 19 degree weather :) 

-aaron