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A few months ago, I started taking guitar lessons. I'm 73 years old. Why, you ask? Well, when I was a kid, I took piano lessons for 10+ years and then I picked up guitar and became sort of a campfire guitarist. I got bored and dropped both. But I love music. I always envied people who...

The last few years, all the network and cable stations time-delayed the ball drop. I used to watch it and then go to bed as my usual time--at 2100 in the Pacific Time Zone. It was disappointing not being able to watch it drop. Well, this year, CNN decided to run it live. Not only did I get...

My family doc is a PA (with some kind of extra suffix; C, I think). She insists she issues FAA medicals. I didn't think a PA could be an AME. I don't want to really grill her (yet), but my medical renewal is coming up early next year and my regular AME retired (I wish they would stop doing...

I have not been able to drive OR fly for weeks. That will end Thursday and the wx is supposed to be nice again that day! I'm counting down the hours! (For the terminally curious, I had surgery on my foot and have to wear a boot.) Interestingly, my husband has been really enjoying my...

My old avatar was pretty old. I've gotten grayer and fatter and my airplane has gotten prettier. So I deleted my old one and tried to upload a new one. It's 320 x 320. But it won't upload. I've tried several times.

Yesterday I flew out of Palo Alto, CA, and asked for flight following to Klamath Falls (my refueling stop on the way home) via SUNOL, an intersection that's a good place to aim for leaving the crazy airspace of the San Francisco Bay. Ground asked for the identifier for Klamath Falls, and I...

That's what a friend said when she found out where I hit 2500 hours total time logged. The back story: I belong to a group called the Cessna Pilots Society. We have a get together every year somewhere in the country except for the last two years because....covid. FINALLY we were able to get...

I just bought a new vehicle, and for the second time in my life, got an interest-free loan. Interest-free loans are fabulous because you're paying off the loan in dollars of ever-decreasing value, especially when, as now, inflation is high. The thing I don't understand is, what's in it for the...

I wanted to send a private message to someone, and found "conversations", but it's not obvious they are private. Are they?

You all know how important a great A&P/IA is. We just lost a great one. Tom did the annuals (and other work) on my airplane for 14 years or so, before I moved to another airport with (another) great mechanic on site. He was a great guy, and let me work along with him. I learned SO much...

When I want to respond to a specific post and have to quote it so the readers will know which one I'm responding to, I click "quote" except that doesn't work. I just get a message that the post was added to multi quote, whatever that is. How do I quote a post?

I thought POA had gone away, but a friend posted a link to a video here. Not only has POA not gone away, it remembered me. Had to change my email address in my profile, though, since it had been 12 years since I last logged on. I don't remember why I left. I found in the chat that few may...

As well as being a member of this illustrious group, I am a member of the Cessna Pilots Association. I recently got a satellite internet system (this is not a non sequitur--just hang with me for a bit). After the usual shakedown, it's working extremely well except when I try to access the...

Dear All, One of my dean colleagues is trying to hire a faculty member, and has run into an unusual (to say the least) problem. The candidate's wife is extremely cool to the idea for the single reason that the last time they moved, the airline killed their pets and was unsympathetic, to say...

I guess I decided I hadn't spent enough money on my airplane with the panel upgrade, so I just got my baby painted. It took 8 looooong weeks, but I picked her up Saturday. She's a 1958 C182A and had a really unique paint scheme, but the paint was showing all of its 49 years. I just had to...

I meant to include a poll in my other thread. Sorry for the duplication. Anway, here's the poll:

Well, I didn't exactly say that; I'm not that in-your-face (only almost that in-your-face). I took a flying :yes: leap with my career last week. I'm the dean of science at a university around these parts, and it's a tough job. I know it's a tough job, I knew it when I took the job, I'm not...

I just got back from a 2.5-week trip to, from, and in Alaska. It was an amazing trip, and fulfilled a dream I've had since learning to fly. I've flown in Alaska in borrowed airplanes, but never my airplane to and from. The reason I'm posting this here is that this was by far the longest...

Last weekend I hosted a Cessna get together at my home airport that took a lot of the mental energy that wasn't devoted to work. It was massively fun, :yes: but as soon as everyone had flown away, I had to start planning for a trip to Alaska: I leave on July 4. I had already ordered all...

Dear Friends, I just found out that one of my former grad students and his whole family have just been through the ringer healthwise. I talked to his wife, and their young son has been in love with airplanes ever since I gave them all a ride a few years ago (he must be about 6 now). She asked...