It's been a bit.

I haven't written in a few days. Things have been kind of different for me. Friday was the retake. Again, I didn't get a high enough score for "passing" of it. However, it is basically just a practice test for the comprehensive test on Nov. 14th. If you don't pass that test, then you have a meeting with some FAA people and your facility. That is when you decide if you can go on or not. I would have scored high enough for passing the comp. though.

I have had a sore throat for about 5 days now. I wish it would go away. The soreness, not the throat. I can't really get to a doctor. Everything is so far away from us. I guess I can go in 6 hours early tomorrow on the semi early morning shuttle. (we are on night shift this week 330pm til midnight)

Friday night, Kim and Art, took us out to dinner. We went to Johnny Caruso's. It was a great italian place. We stayed at there place for a few hours watching movies until about 11:30pm. I got a call and I told Jon that we needed to go. We had rented a car so that is how we could leave... Anyways, earlier in the night, a guy from our class called and said that his buddy got sick at the bar. I told Jon that needed to go pick him up. Out the door we went. We headed down Meridian and somehow ended up in the airport. If you head straight down Meridian without turning, this is what happens. I told him that we needed to turn around and that we were just going to take the departures ramp around. Then I saw this pretty girl standing off to the side. I pulled off to the side to talk to her. Jon didn't know what was going on. Alyssa had come down to surprise him. He was kind of in shock and wonderment. It was a good time.

The next day was Jon's Bday. We finally got up and around town about 430. We went to the Oklahoma City bombing site. That was amazing. We only got an hour in the actual museum part. I think we got about half way through in the hour. I'm going to go back one more time before I go.

We walked from the site to Bricktown, basically Pioneer Square in WA. However, there is a canal that runs threw the center of the area. It was pretty cool to sit at the restaurant and watch the people walking around by the water and also riding on the boats that they had.

Sunday was a day of football and studying for me. Jon and Alyssa went to the Cowboy Museum. I didn't know that they were going there but that's okay. I'm going to get there someday. I watched football and played on the internet all day. I'm getting tired of the bloody Seahawks. What a bunch of bums. Oh well, there's always the Sonics... I mean, wait. No, the Thunder.

The last few days have been up at 1000 by pounding at our door. Either houskeeping, a maintanence guy or some one else decides to wake us up at the same time every day. Granted, we get home at 1am and I have had a hard time getting to sleep. So, I haven't been sleeping til 3 or so. Next week is going to suck. We have a short weekend. Get done at midnight on Friday, and return at 730 Monday morning.

We are having a meet and greet today. People from our facilities are going to be at the school to chat with us. I've been kind of nervous all day. We have the second block test tomorrow, the meet and greet is tonight and I have been getting increasingly upset with the apartment. Everything seems to be so.... cheap. The TV already blew. We got a new one that has no inputs to plug the dvd player or Xbox. Granted, I haven't had time to watch it since it blew but still. What TV made since 1992 doesn't have the red, white and yellow inputs? Seriously? The sock washer does nothing but wrinkle and shrink all of our clothes. The dishwasher now has a kink in the drainage tube. All of the silverware is starting to rust. The internet disconnects at a regular basis. The garbage truck comes barreling in at 4 am almost every morning. AND everything is not within 1 mile like they said it was.... We have been here 2 weeks already and I wish it was March. Not because of how hard the class is, but because I don't like staying in this "hotel".

Okay. Enough ranting. On to the eventures of riding the shuttle tonight. They contract out the drivers at night. They are SCARY. I hope we can make it home safely.
Thanks for listening.
-Jeff