I solo'd

Yea.

Apparently I also land like I'm taking the shuttle in to Houston.  But that's only a minor detail.

Justin

PS Today we had an Osprey come visit us.  The type with two pivoting rotors.  It's nice.

I figured out how to take off...sorta.  Tomorrow should be my first solo.  I'll let you know how it goes.

Justin

Excerpts from a conversation of sorts that I was recently a part of:  This was said to me.

If I wanted to be that "you're a good man Jeff" person that you see from time to time in the movies, I would go be a doctor.  I decided that I want my life to be a little more exciting than that.  Not to say that the medical profession isn't, or to disparage it in any way.  It simply isn't the sort of excitement that I'm looking for, not the sort that gets me going.

I feel so much better having decided this.

Justin 

I do so much because it's never enough.

I'm only happy for moments because it's never enough.

If it were someday enough, I might be happy.

If it were someday enough, I wouldn't do so much.

If I didn't do so much, I wouldn't achieve.

Achieving makes me happy for a moment.

I do things so that I can achieve and be happy.

If I didn't achieve I wouldn't be happy.

If I didn't achieve I wouldn't do so much.

I sincerely hope that my youthful vigor is enough to sustain my insatiable appetite, and that one doesn't run out before the other.  Eventually it will be enough, and eventually I think I will arrive at some place, sit in some craggy chair, and look down on my life and be satisfied...I hope. 

Thanks Amanda

Justin