I'm trying to come up with a witty title, but I'm not having any success.

I really found this observation interesting. On Monday of last week, I wore shorts to work. Tuesday too. Wednesday too. Then, by Saturday, I was wearing my winter coat outside. And gloves. And I was cold. I must live in Ohio.

I'm thinking of putting up a bunch of pictures. I don't have time for many, but I'll put in some. These are from different days at work. Some are pictures of airplanes, some are pictures of sunsets, and some are pictures of other things. :P

Me after flying a couple friends.

The Diamond Star. Sweet plane. :)

A King Air B200 that flew in. This was a charter aircraft from northern Ohio. I got a bunch of pictures. :DAnother view of it. In case you're wondering, the red thing on the prop... that's a prop lock. It keeps the prop from rotating in the wind while it's sitting on the ground. The other ends of the cable are secured around the exhaust pipes for the engine.Another view.Nose-on. This is one great-looking plane. :D

And, I had to get one with me in there.

An incredible sunset view shot alongside the King Air.
This is the Beech Duke. It flew up from Florida, non-stop. I've gotten to fill it up two times so far. :DA different view, this one from a little further away.It's a little smaller.

And more sunset. :)

Another great sunset picture.

A Columbia 300. REALLY fast airplane. I wouldn't mind one. :D

A Learjet 25. It flew up from Texas. Must have been a fun flight. I wouldn't mind going along. :)

A sunset on another night.

The Twin Star taking off. The Piper Arrow in the foreground. :D

Another view of the takeoff. Eclipse in the foreground.

Still getting up.

And finally, off it goes. Awesome airplane.

Well, that's it for now. I'm off to go to sleep. I hope some people really enjoyed the pictures. :)

Pray for our country!

We need it.

I just couldn't resist posting this video

This just cracked me up. Incredibly. Watch the whole thing. :D

I tried to come up with something like "I've been busy" but it just didn't seem to fit...

I'm sorry. I'll try to do better.

I have been up to quite a lot. Let's start with school.

I'm doing just a light load of schoolwork this year. Since I'm planning on getting a business degree from Geneva, I decided to start on some school after all. Right now I'm near the end of the fifth chapter of the accounting course I'm taking online with Clark State Community College in Springfield. It's going well overall, except for occasional problems with the online server. :P

Work has picked up a lot for me. Since there was very little rain for quite a while, mowing had slowed down a lot. However, now that we've had some more rain, the business has returned. I'm also working 18 hours a week at the airport. I'm doing Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday evenings 4-7, and also Saturdays 8-5. That's going really well. I enjoy the (most of) the work and the people there at the airport are great. I'm able to make a bit of money which is going towards my next topic.

Flying is starting back into learning again instead of recreation. I'm working on what's called the Instrument Rating, which allows me to fly in clouds, low visibility, or other similar situations. So far, it's been a lot of fun. Most of the time I learn pretty quickly, so that's good.

I haven't started driving yet. I really really really need to start sometime soon. Hopefully that'll work out soon.

Unfortunately, one thing that has been sacrificed with my increasing time at the airport is participation with my Boy Scout troop. I'm late for each of the meetings, since I work Tuesday nights. As well, since I'm working Saturdays, I can't really make it to campouts. That's about my only regret working at the airport, since I miss doing things with the troop. It's taken a bit of getting used to.

One thing that people will (hopefully) be interested in is what I got to do with a few other guys and a couple adults from the troop this August. We went out to Ohiopyle, Pennsylvania, which is in southwestern PA. There, all of us got to participate in two days of whitewater canoeing on the Middle Youghiogheny River. Those of us under 18 earned the Whitewater Merit Badge, while the adults enjoyed getting to watch us. :D They canoed all the time that we did... just they didn't take the adventurous routes like we did. They also had the record for the least capsizes, at three. My canoe partner and I wiped out four times, while the other two guys did about a dozen. We laughed at them a lot. :) Actually, whenever anybody wiped out, they were laughed at thoroughly. :D

I think that's it for now. I seriously will try to remember to post more often. I'm also going to change the music. If you have any questions, comments, or stupid jokes... go ahead and leave me a comment. I don't mind. Even stupid jokes. :D

I think that safely qualified as my longest sabbatical ever. I'm back, now, though. :D

Just a quick post to get stuff up again. If you'd like to see the first photo album of RP International pics of mine on Facebook... click here.

Hope you like the music!

Great news!

The National Merit Foundation wouldn't let me publicly announce this until today. However, now that it's the 30th, I can tell anybody.

As many of you had probably known, I'd gotten National Merit Finalist. We found out about 5 weeks ago that I'd made it into the next and final cut, Scholar. Not all scholars get any money, but they've given me $2500 to use for schooling. As you might imagine, I'm really happy with this. Praise the Lord for His blessings like this!

Too long

Well, it has been too long. I'll summarize what's been going on in the past month and a half.

Church has been going quite well. We've been having some encouragements. We had a congregational meeting a few weeks ago. The congregation has been moving forward, and we enjoyed the benefit of a meeting that was wonderful due to the unanimity showed. A couple weeks ago, due to two families visiting the area, we had 66 people at church. That's the most that I remember having there in a long time. It was great. Hopefully, we'll soon be having that sort of attendance normally.

We're a bit behind in school, unfortunately. However, we're making steady progress on it. Hopefully, we can get done before too late into summer. :P

Flying has been going well. I'm working on getting checked out in the Star, a 4-seater. It's quite fun. Soon after getting the checkout in the plane, I'm hoping to take a bunch of friends up. :)

I'll finish up tomorrow with more. Night! :)