Hi

Just wanted to say hi to everyone! Hope everyone is doing well and thanks for reading the blog. I'm currently in Florida right now, on one of my marathon tours through the state and hopefully I'll be back before midnight. Really it depends on the weather. If it's too bad I'll stop in Panama City on the way back and stay the night. If not, I'll push through to Atlanta. I'll have more later...

0425

0413 and I have a few things to say.

One, I can type very fast for someone that cannot touch type. However, when it comes to typing in the dark, everything changes.

Two, I am training myself to use only military time. I think we all know why this is important.

Three, I think this whole swine flu thing is a joke. Apparently, it's a mild strain of an influenza virus that is not transmittable through the air. So really, you have to cough on someone to give it to them. And if they get it, life will become very uncomfortable for a few days. And maybe, without proper care or they're under 3 or over 70, it could be as potentially fatal as any other flu bug out there. In short, this giant media hype has about as much chance of really affecting (or is it effecting? any English majors I could use a little help there) me as aw hell, I lost my point. Cut me some slack, it's 0418.

Four, I have a wonderful fiancee who makes me laugh from the time I get up to 3 minutes before I fall asleep. Make sure you have someone in your life who does that for you.

Hope everyone has a great day and don't worry about the swine flu. In fact, don't worry about much at all today.

Congratulations

Congratulations Mrs. Q, "According to Me"s 7th official follower! In recognition of Mrs. Q's efforts, "According to Me" has devoted an entire blog post to her. It's this post if you're wondering.

Quarrels

'According to Me' has recently discovered my Facebook and Twitter accounts. After an unsuccessful attempt to infect me with Swine Flu in a fit of jealousy, I originally planned to punish the blog. However, I believe a three-way battle to the death would be much more appropriate. I will bring to all of my followers a live, streaming video (available later on Podcast) battle royale in which only one internet personal-update medium will survive. May the best trendy social internet tool survive!

14 hours, 5 airports and 1 tractor

I had an uber interesting day last week. Alan had me show up to Pompano Beach Airpark at 8am. This meant that I had to have the airplane preflighted by 330am and wheels up by 340. This picture was taken near Orlando just before sunrise. I think that bright star is Venus. Anyway, after getting Alan at Pompano, we were off to Okechobee, FL because fuel is so cheap there and then we made our way north to Thomasville, Georgia. After that, we stopped in Columus, GA where Alan bought a tractor. Yes, a tractor. Then it was up to Atlanta, Hartsfield International in our little 4-place single engine piston airplane. If you want to know what it's like to land something that small at the world's busiest airport, recall the Visa commercials with the music where everyone is paying with their check cards and then the guy whips out some cash and everything comes to an akward halt? That's it. Now imagine that they day before Thanksgiving. Been there, done that, got the t-shirt. After that, just a short jaunt up to Cobb County. Quite a fun day really.

Renovations

I got rid of the useless knowledge gadget on this blog. It was, well, useless.

Where have I been?

Where indeed.