Tomorrow is my first day back in 8 days. I have enjoyed my time off. In addition to doing absolutely nothing (like today!), I traveled with my wife to her home to visit her side of the family. I am very relaxed and have no desire to go back to work! As it stands now, [...]

Had a great weekend with my in laws. Being able to travel whenever wherever rocks! Today my slot machine arrived! Yes I bought a slot machine. Well I didn’t my wife bought it for me. I have spent all day setting it up. Why did I want one? Gambling is my favorite hobby. Back to [...]

I’ve always been more than a little skeptical of Gulfstream International. For those that don’t know they are a flight school and an airline. Those wishing to be pilots can pay Gulfstream an ungodly amount of money for training and then be “hired” as a First Officer getting paid an extremely substandard rate to fly [...]

My wife and I are visitng her family up in the northwest. The flight here had just enough seats for us. Our backup plan of using my mainline partner to connect to Southwest wasn’t needed. My mother in law thought we were crazy as we discussed our options of getting here. My mother in law [...]

My mother in law is in town this week. She is going home tomorrow and my wife and I planned on going on the same flight to spend Memorial Day weekend with her family. We have been watching the flight for the past month. Four weeks ago the flight had 30 open seats. Two weeks [...]

Today is my day 6. This means I can’t legally work tomorrow. I am off for 8 glorious days starting tomorrow. I was assigned morning airport standby again today. The plan was to sleep as much as possible…mull around the airport….and drive home. So much for plans. As soon as I signed in I had [...]