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Working for “The Man”

Posted on May 17, 2007 | Filed Under Work

Scenario:

1. Current employer is in the middle of a buy-out, and it decides to reorganize all of its I.T. employees.
2. Former employer (who I was thinking of moving back toward) re-organized a few months ago, and it’s now just announced a buy-out.

What does this mean? Abso-frickin’-lutely nothing. It’s par for the course. And it’s part of working for the proverbial “man”. How did the average American worker end up working for the soulless, life-sucking thing called a “corporation”. I honestly have no idea, and sadly I think it’s the case of the means justifying the end.

<sigh>

St. Joseph of Cupertino

Posted on May 8, 2007 | Filed Under Flying

After a ten-month hiatus from flight training I’ve jumped back in with both feet. And it’s as fun and challenging as I remembered. In two lessons and 2.2 hours of flight time I feel that a lot of the rust has been knocked off. We’ve already performed the following maneuvers:

1. Turns around a point
2. Slow flight
3. Steep turns
4. Crosswind landings
5. Forward-slip landings
6. S-Turns

So far things have gone well–although definitely not perfect. I’ve still got many, many things to learn or re-learn. I have what seems to be a good, patient CFI and can’t wait until the next time I go up.

Current flight time: 19.8 hours. Wow. I didn’t realize that.

FYI, the title refers to St. Joseph of Cupertino who is apparently the patron saint of aviators. Oh, and the hilarious part is that he’s also a patron saint of the mentally handicapped and bad students. Maybe there’s some truth to wanting to fly and having a mental handicap. After reading that article I believe Catholicism and Greek/Roman gods have more in common than I thought.