I bet the driver doesn’t think so. Take a drive on dirt for the last 1/10th mile to my house. As I’m typing this, I’m watching the town’s garbage collection truck rumble down the unreasonably steep and rugged road that leads to my home and my two neighbor’s homes. This ...

Don’t waste your money. I am an idiot. Throughout the past ten years or so, I’ve been conned by at least a half dozen “best-selling” diet books. I thought I’d learned my lesson. But when I picked up The Flat Belly Diet book at a Borders bookstore last week, I said ̶...

A comment turned into a blog post. I just read “The Shot” on Helicopter Pilot, Will Travel. (If you’re a helicopter pilot and you don’t read this blog, you’re really missing out on something valuable.) The post was about aerial photography and the difficulties in gettin...

Real groaners for folks who love puns. My friend, Tom, sent me these in e-mail today. Thought I’d share them with blog readers. Enjoy! The roundest knight at King Arthur’s round table was Sir Cumference. He acquired his size from too much pi. I thought I saw an eye doctor on an Alaskan ...

It’s not as easy as it seems sometimes. My R44, parked on the side lawn at the Lake Pateros Inn in Washington State. Sadly, heat from my engine browned the grass. One of the benefits of operating a helicopter is that you can land it almost anywhere. One of the drawbacks of this, however, is th...

Or why I had to turn down a potentially lucrative charter flight. One of the things I’ve said again and again is that it’s nearly impossible to load a Robinson R44 helicopter out of CG. Nearly, but not completely. What is CG? For those of you unfamiliar with the term CG, it stands for ce...

My own list. As most folks who follow me have discovered (if they’ve bothered to look), I don’t automatically reciprocate follows. I check out new followers before I follow them. I also attempt to keep the number of people I follow down to a manageable count of 100 or so. That’s be...

And a check ride report. I realized this morning that I never did report on my check ride. When I mentioned that I was prepping for it, I promised a report the next day. That was a week ago. In my defense, I’ve been unreasonably busy. Here’s a rundown of how I spent the past seven days.:...

Another stay at Ventura Harbor. I’m back in Ventura again, working hard on a new training video for Lynda.com. The schedule is very tough this time around and at the end of the day, I’m absolutely exhausted. But tonight, I took a few minutes to walk along the path around the harbor. I di...

Here are a few links I found interesting on February 18, 2009: 9 Common Usability Mistakes In Web Design - There's nothing that bugs me more than a Web site that I think might have the content I want but is so poorly designed, I run out of patience before I can find it. This article talks about ...