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| Saturday, February 22nd, 2003 | |
| 5:58 pm | more left out a couple things from the other day. Went down to TGI Fridays in the Radisson where we stay in Austin to eat dinner with the crew. We sat down and 45 minutes later our food finally came. I guess from what our waiter says, the kitchen had a bunch of inexperienced cooks and they were just screwing up the orders left and right. Anyway we got our meal finally and they gave us 50% off the sticker price so that made it a little less painful. Weather in Austin was kinda ugly. 2 miles visibility and overcast. with another successful landing. Followup on the Jump Seat ordeal. Turns out that the pilot asked for the name of the crew on the plane and actually called our hotel that night to complain more about the horrible treatment that he received! This is really out of line on this guys part! For him to cause this much commotion is uncalled for. Like I said before, the jump seat is a privilege NOT a right. This guy really needs to check his attitude SOMEWHERE. This guy will never sit on my jump seat. Tonight I got an overnight at home. Salt Lake so I get to go home and eat a good home cooked meal with the family. Had some good weather in Salt for landing! A 30MPH crosswind landing. And nailed it, if I do say so myself. Let's see. 2 legs tomorrow...SLC to Phoenix then El Paso overnight. Should be uneventful! |
| Friday, February 21st, 2003 | |
| 9:54 pm | Today First day of a 4 day trip and lots of stories. The Round trip to San Jose went basically without a hitch except for the Captains clock on the flight deck needed to be replaced because it would not reset. That was taken care of and off we went to SJC. Had a 2 hour sit in SJC and I got a tasty jumbo burrito. Ok, Here is a little info on pilot jumpseating. As pilots we are able to go up to any airline and if there is an open seat we can, with the flight crews permission, hitch a free ride. This is used mainly for commuting to and from work however, it is a great way to go anywhere for free. When you jump seat on another airline you are using a privilege not a right! You need to be very careful and be appreciative of the individuals giving you the ride. This includes the flight attendants as well as the pilots. I have never encountered an ungrateful pilot using my jumpseat. Until today. We were about 10 minutes prior to push time and we get a jumpseat request from a Southwest pilot. We are happy to take him to Austin and the Captain signs the form. A few minutes later the Flight attendant brings the pilots ID badge to us to approve access to the flight deck. We look at the ID and give it back to the flight attendant. She was doing her job by protecting the flight deck. When the flight attendant brought the ID back to the Southwest pilot he grabbed it back and said, "I have never been treated so rudely, I do not want the ride I will ride on Southwest". I guess he was offended that the flight attendant was doing her job by protecting the flight deck and asking her pilots to check the ID before she allowed him access. The pilot was not dressed in a pilot uniform and she just wanted to make sure we approved before she allowed him access to the flight deck. I was shocked by the attitude of the jumpseater. I guess there will always be individuals that will never be happy and must get hostile when they are questioned. With the security of airlines these days I am shocked by the actions of this pilot we encountered today. Hope tomorrow is a little more quiet. Current Mood:  tired |
| Thursday, February 20th, 2003 | |
| 10:45 pm | Retreating Making some progress on the return to OS 9 on my "old" MAC 8500 desktop. I have found that anytime I try to access the video of the 8500 it freezes. I need to call Sonnet and ask them if there are any known issues with the processor card and the built in video. I was hoping to get my webcam back on line after returning to OS9. Now I run smack dab into this video problem. House is back on the market...Hopefully going to move to Phoenix THIS time.!!! I am starting a 4 day trip tomorrow early...0745am... show time. Fly a round trip to San Jose and back, then overnight in Austin, TX. Spend Saturday Night in Salt Lake City and Sunday Night in El Paso. yee haa. |
| Wednesday, February 19th, 2003 | |
| 10:12 am | Lost in OSX I am being held hostage in OS X on my 8500! I can't boot up in OS 9 any more! I have tried to boot from the CD, I have tried to boot into classic, I have tried disconnecting the OSX drive completely and OS 9 will just not boot! I do not know what to do! I have lost all control of the computer!!! Ahhhhh. NOW it won't even let me shut it down with the power button! I had to pull the power cord!!! Next it will keep running without the power cord plugged in!!! What's next! Current Mood:  frustratedCurrent Music: Never Let Me Down Again-Depeche Mode-Music For The Masses |
| Wednesday, February 12th, 2003 | |
| 9:45 pm | Not again. This morning I woke up with a sore throat! I BETTER NOT be getting sick again after 6 weeks of the crap in December and January! I am suppose to start a trip Thursday overnighting in Ontario, CA - Santa Ana, CA - and Tucson, AZ on Saturday night. Might have to go play a little trivia at the TGIFridays across the street from the Viscount Suite Hotel. That is of course unless I call in sick! Arrrggghhhhh! |
| Friday, February 7th, 2003 | |
| 10:34 pm | Bus 58! Grrrr. I just wrote 3 paragraphs of journal and iJournal quit on me so now I have to type it all in again!! Grrrr So I am in Oakland, CA today and I decide to take BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) over to San Francisco to do some people watching and get some exercise. I walk out of the hotel and hop on bus #58 to the BART station. Then ride BART train to San Francisco. All is great, I do a little people watching and buy "The Wedding Singer" DVD at Virgin records. I get back on BART to go back then hop on bus #58. Well that is where things go bad. I did not know that there is 2 different #58 buses! One goes to the airport and one goes to McArthur. It just so happens my 50-50 goes the wrong way. About 20 minutes later after I realize the bus is not going to turn back to the airport I get off and cross the street and hop on the "airport" version of #58. What an ordeal. Public transportation sure attracts a lot of idiot people. There were fat people singing to their walkmans, School girls screaming and yelling, and obnoxious people trying to push their views onto you from the war to religion.! One thing I did notice on my Oakland "tour" is that there are a lot of beauty salons and nail shops. Move to Oakland...Open a beauty salon! Tomorrow: Oakland to Phoenix to Houston, TX to Phoenix then home to Salt Lake. Gonna do some skiing with some friends over the next few days. |
| 8:56 pm | Schedule Today: Mexico City to Phoenix to Oakland...  You just have to love the view of the High Sierras over Half Dome at 35,000 feet!
It's not work if you love what you do. |
| Saturday, February 1st, 2003 | |
| 10:21 pm | Feb 1 2003 First let me just start with a moment of silence for the Shuttle crew and especially Rick Husband. Also let me say that I know they all loved being part of the space program. It is not a lost cause when you die doing what you love. Today I had a round trip flight to Manzanillo, Mexico. I took a few pictures in memory of Rick and the crew....  A picture of the resort just south of Manzanillo.
Current Mood:  calmCurrent Music: Right Now-Van Halen-For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge |
| Friday, January 31st, 2003 | |
| 8:50 pm | GEEK!!! Here I am at the local KINKOS downloading iPhoto (33.3mb) and iMovie (84.5mb) on a Friday night...What an idiot I am. They have a T1 line here and thought it would go faster however I think the Apple server is very busy since it looks to be taking about 20 minutes to d/l 33mb. Kinda slow for T1 Line speed. Guess I will email some friends. P.S. So that you do not categorize me in the 100% geek column, I had a couple pages to laminate at KINKOS so my whole purpose was not to come and d/l on a Friday night but also to laminate. It was a large portion of the reason though. eh uh Current Mood: zippy |
| Thursday, January 30th, 2003 | |
| 11:06 pm | FTP update Solved my interarchy problem. I had the old version 5.0.1. I downloaded 6.1 and now I have access to my web page again. It's the simple things that make a difference. |
| 11:02 pm | life improvement So after 2 1/2 years on line, I finally have enough seniority to hold a line of flying next month. Let me just say that I have been waiting for this for a long time. Getting off reserve is soooo Gooooood. Being on reserve = having no life. I now know where and when I am going. I have 4, 4-day trips. I overnight in Mexico City, Salt Lake City, Orange County, El Paso, Oakland, Ontario, CA, Tucson, Austin, and Minneapolis. Plus I get 13 days off. Life is getting better. The only thing is i do not know if I will be able to hold a line in March. Lets hope so! |
| 6:10 pm | file transfer Ok, My web cam is down due to the lack of a webcam software app that will work in OSX since I upgraded to OSX on the desktop that is running my webcam. To boot. Interarchy crashes when I start it up, so I cannot even transfer a file to update the cam image manually!!! Ahhhhhhh Current Music: Man On A Mission-Van Halen-For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge |
| Monday, January 27th, 2003 | |
| 7:34 pm | Ah Shucks It seems that my new superfast G4 processor does not get along with "sitecam", my favorite webcam software. I do not know what I will do. I guess go on a search for a new webcam software. Maybe I will try to get in touch with the makers of sitecam and the manufacturer of the Processor upgrade. DARN! Current Mood: grrrrrrrrrrr Current Music: Hot Hot Hot!!!-The Cure-Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me |
| Friday, January 24th, 2003 | |
| 12:01 pm | Exercise Today I walked 4.22 miles around the Las Vegas Strip. I am on a 4 day trip, last night we spent the night in Las Vegas, today we go to Orange County John Wayne airport then the last night we spend in Ontario then home Sunday.
Current Mood: yippee Current Music: Night Hawks Dream-Keiko Matsui-Full Moon And The Shrine |
| Tuesday, January 21st, 2003 | |
| 11:27 pm | Visits Was out in LA for a couple days and slept on  chuckvideoSpent about 3 hours at the Glendale court DIV 5 because I am suing the City of Glendale $5000.00 for damage to my office building sewer line. The Judge is going to rule on it later today. That city if Glendale sure knows how to screw the public. Current Mood: agitated Current Music: Pictures Of You-Oingo Boingo-Good For Your Soul |
| Thursday, January 16th, 2003 | |
| 10:27 pm | Nice View! Today the Space Shuttle lifted off from the gravity of Earth to start a 16 day mission. The commander of the mission is Rick Husband the brother of a pilot friend of mine. Here is a cool picture I found in the Photoshop Sample folder...
Rick, Be careful out there! Space is a hostile environment! Current Mood: Floating |
| Wednesday, January 15th, 2003 | |
| 8:25 pm | Park Bench Did some Before/After benchmarking with the new 700mhz processor. Photoshop 6.0 loaded in 37 seconds, now loads in 20 seconds Quicken 2002 loaded in 31 seconds, now loads in 11 seconds Internet Explorer loaded in 18 seconds, now loads in 5 seconds. I would say that it was worth the investment. along with booting a whole lot faster. I did not time that but I would say it shaved off a good 1/3. Have not experienced any program conflict problems as of yet. Going to add 256megs of RAM tomorrow so I can load OSX on the machine. Ah you ask, how can I put OSX on a machine that is not supported by Apple? Well it is possible to do it with the new G4 Processor. Although I will not be able to run SiteCam under OSX. I should check to see if there is an OSX version. |
| 4:55 pm | Re-Born With that said, I took the leap of faith yesterday and ordered a processor upgrade for my aging 8500/120 machine. I Removed and installed the Current Mood: relievedCurrent Music: Something New-Cause & Effect-Another Minute |
| 11:12 am | Officer I was not expeeding the seed limit. Listening to iTunes and installing the new processor for my slow...soon-to-be-fast Powermac 8500 tower. This little Beast will make my life a little faster along with my 8500/120. Now I will be blazing at 700MHZ with 1MB of Backside cache (whatever that means). He He Current Music: Chance Meeting-Acoustic Alchemy-Arcanum |
| Tuesday, January 14th, 2003 | |
| 9:59 am | FAQ's are good to read! After over a year of using LJ I decided to peruse the LJ FAQ's and there is so much good information like chuckvideoCurrent Music: The Orangutan Gang (Strikes Back)-Shadowfax-A Windham Hill Retrospective |
