Well how was your New Years? Mine was nothing to write home about, I guess that's because I spent it at home, and if I wrote home about it, it would be redundant. I really didn't do anything to celebrate, just sat home and watched the ball drop. Afterward I stepped outside my home to listen to the drunks yell and burn themselves with fireworks. It was a special time - just standing in the cold damp grass freezing my keister off and listening to the mating call of the Great North American White Trash. Ahhh good times.

In other news, yesterday I got my Private Pilot Multiengine Land rating!!! It was actually a lot of fun. I had not flown seriously in about 4 months so when I started flying (on Tuesday) I was all over the place. However after much thought and attitude correction, I was able to put the airplane where I wanted it. My instructor said one thing that will forever stick with me. On Wednesday, I was having a little more trouble controlling the airplane, and he said, "This is airplane is pimp slappin' you because it thinks you're it's bitch!!!. Now take control of this airplane and make it do what you want it to do!!!" I laughed when I heard this, but he was totally right!! That airplane was slappin' me silly until I decided that I had enough. So if I didn't learn anything else, I did learn to fly more aggressively and to put the airplane where I want it. Like my Dad always says, (he's a pilot too) "If the airplane is not where you want it to be, then the airplane is out of control." And God bless him, he was really onto something there.

Well aside from the fact that I don't update this page as much as I said that I would, you be interested to know why there is a HUGE gap in the timeline for this page. Well as I was updating my page one day, I accidentally copied over this page! I lost about the last 3 months worth of Journals. But there is a bright side to this story, I did not loose the story about our dear friend Stormy. Yes, Stormy will forever live in our hearts, on on this web page. Man that was a weird girl!!

Well, I guess I'll let you go now. Hope all is well where you are and that you have a peaceful and prosperous New Year.

Don't stop kissing the girls for me.

	Best regards,