Holy, it's been a while!

I have been quite busy the past couple of weeks, I never got around to posting anything!

Lets see, the hi-lights. I'm now totally moved into my basement room and things are going well there, I've been working my ass off lately, had a flight to Vancouver for a pickup only though, and I'm training a new guy for night shifts this week.

So... to detail a little further:

I got a flight to Vancouver and we were going to have about 1hr on the ground. I called up my folks because I'm in the middle of all my taxes and wanted my Dad to come with some of my tax stuff from last year and so I could show him some of my tax stuff from this year. It's a complicated tax year for me: I have 2 T4's, my own flying business and write offs to work out for last year due to the traffic plane flying (I was a contract pilot), my moving expenses, some flight training expenses, and I made some money on some stocks too... it should be fun. At any rate, I met up with the family at the airport and Justin came out as well to say hello. Seeing as how he's off to Japan pretty soon it was likely the last time I'll see him before he jets off to the land of the rising sun. While I was showing the family and Justin the aircraft, we look up only to see Gordon Campbell and a swarm of executives loading onto a chartered aircraft right in front of us. My Mom promptly sticks her head out the door of the plane and snaps a picture; thanks Mom, how professional =D. I kicked family and friends out before the passengers arrived and it was a bumpy flight back. Actually, coming in was quite bumpy as well. I flew the first leg to Vancouver and we were getting hit pretty good, and we even flew through a bit of hail. My landing was likely the best I have ever had and I was quite happy about it! On the approach back into Calgary it was snowing and there was a low overcast layer. We flew through this for only a few minutes but it was enough for a serious amount of ice to develop on the aircraft. I took pictures because if we had flown through it for any longer it could have become a hazard. (If anyone would like to see the pics, just email me).

On to some good news here. I'm training a new guy for the night shift in the office, and we have just had another guy start on nights as well. What does this mean? Well, I'll be able to step out of nights and within the next 30-45 days I should be seeing the end of my office days here at AirSprint and I'll be transitioning to full time flying! That will be great when it happens and I've got my fingers crossed. But in order for me to get out of the office fully, there are other people being trained for the daytime office shifts and they have to be fully up to speed as well. There is a chance that even after I go full time flying, I could be called back into the office for the odd shift to help out. But hopefully everyone gets trained and up to speed quickly and I can start to see a lot more flying and little to NO office!

So yeah, there you have it. Oh yeah, it's freaking cold here in Calgary. Damn you westcoasters.

Oh, and the owner of the company flew back in from Mexico last night after a family vacation. He calls me up at 3am to say he can't get a cab at the main terminal, so he asks if I can take the keys out of his desk and go and pick him and his family up in his truck at the main terminal! Talk about pressure. I get outside and there is 3 inches of fresh snow out there!!! I drove super carefully, picked him and his family up, and he was tired and didn't want to drive, so I DROVE him back to our offices, where they loaded up seperate cars and drove home after. Talk about crazyness, driving the boss in unplowed snow covered and nearly invisible roads in his HUGE truck. I was glad when that was over.

Haha.. I laugh about it now, but had I parked it in a ditch, this blog entry would have likely started a whole lot differently!