I'm Back, for now.

Those of you who diligently check my blog for new posts, you have probably been wondering what I have been doing the past month and a half. Due to my very limited time since the beginning of January, I have been working two jobs. First I head off to the base at 0400 and come home (most of the time) at 1530. I am home anywhere from a half an hour to an hour before I have to leave for my second job. The great thing about my second job is that I get paid about $40.00 an hour, it only last three months, the location varies, most of my coworkers are great to work with, I get to exercise, and customers like to yell at me, but have no influence. I like my second job, but the time has come for it to end. Yes, I love officiating high school basketball. Now what am I going to do with all my extra time. Melissa already has that planned out. Time to finish the basement. I don't know when I will be posting again, but hopefully soon. It might be a plane or some rambling like this one. Nobody knows what it will be until I post it. I need to shut up now, so everybody, have fun.

Lockheed Vega

The Lockheed Vega is a four passenger aircraft that was first introduced in 1927. The Vega was considered to small for passenger service, so in 1929 the Vega was improved with a bigger engine and two more passenger seat were added. The Vega was built for speed in which it proved by setting a number of aviation speed records. The Vega was also built to last. The Vega is also known as the aircraft that Amelia Earhart flew when she became the first women to fly solo across the Atlantic. Wiley Post used his Vega to fly around the world twice. Both of those Vegas are on display at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum. There were 132 Vegas built and only six exist today.

Specifications

Powerplant........................1 x Pratt & Whitney R1340C

Length................................27 ft 6 in

Height................................8 ft 6 in

Wing Span.........................41 ft 0 in

Maximum Speed..............185 mph

Maximum Range..............725 miles

Service Ceiling..................15,000 feet

Christmas Time

The presents I received this Christmas was just about the best presents I have received ever. Some of the gifts I received I would have never expected to get as long as Melissa was alive. To my amazement she got me the Napoleon Dynamite soundtrack which is "sweet." She also got me two 2-Liter bottles of the finest soda of PA, Pennsylvania Dutch Birch Beer. Oh, the smell, the taste, the memories. I will savor these two bottles especially the cost for them, $1.59/bottle plus shipping for a total of $15. Yes, $7.50/bottle, but it is so worth it. If you want to try a sample, just ask and maybe I will let you try some.
Christmas was good except for the whinny little kids, but I guess this is what you get for waking them up early in the morning to get the long day going.
Melissa, the sticky buns were very tasty and thanks for everything.

The Santa Experience

Since it is Christmas time, I was so excited to hear that Santa was coming to the Ward Christmas party. I couldn't wait to ask Santa for the one thing that I have always wanted, a Red Ryder carbine-action, two hundred shot Range Model air rifle with a compass in the stock and thing which tells time. But as usual I got the same answer that everybody gets when asking for this item. "You'll shot your eye out, kid."

Darn it, Melissa got to Santa before I did. Oh well, maybe next year.