Yup! Since I've been blogging since last fall I've posted 100 times. This is quite the milestone. You can send your celebratory gifts and cards to my home address here in Calgary. :)
Well I've got a few postworthy tidbits so here they are:
Destination Tracker MAP!
I have found this place that uses google maps as a base map for their service. It's mainly to be used to track your friends from around the world and all that, but I've customized it to show all of the places I've flown to. It's quite neat to visually see where I have travelled within North America. And what is also impressive about this little tool is that you can write comments at each pin you put down. So, that's what I have done. On all of the places that I've been there is a little comment about the location. So check 'em out. When it first loads off the webpage it's all the way zoomed in, so zoom it out and it looks like this:
It also has options to view as a satellite image so you can zoom right in and on most of the maps the detail is quite good. I've placed the pins directly on the airports at all of these locations. It took a long time! The link only takes you to a basic page though and I'd like it to just be the image itself but I can't seem to figure out how to use the various html codes so that you just see the image (like the one I posted above) instead of it always being zoomed in closely everytime you click the link. If anyone else knows a way to do this, let me know!
To access the map you can click this link HERE, or you can click on the new picture below the text version of my destination tracker on the right hand side of the page.
Calgary Cold Snap
Yesterday was a little chilly. How's -41 degrees with windchill for ya!? She was so cold that my battery in my Subaru said "screw this" and wouldn't start for me yesterday morning when the temp was -28 degrees (not accounting for windchill). So I had to get someone to give me a lift to help out at work (not flying). Brrr, I was working outside for a good chunk of the day too... it was very very chilly. My lips were not very happy and of course I had left my chap stick at home! Bah!
And it didn't help that yesterday my company decides it's going to do the bulk of it's office move to our new location across the other side of the runway here in Calgary. So of course anyone that's not flying or on days off gets the call to come in and help. So I went in and spent 11hrs of the day loading boxes, furniture, office supplies and many many files into a rented U-Haul making numerous trips back and forth to our new facilites. Hopefully the majority of it is all done, as I just received an email from work stating that we are no operating out of our new facilities 100% now and no longer using the old office/hangars. Woo hoo! The new hangar/office space we have is very nice. Just in the passenger lounge downstairs at the front, I'm sure $50,000 was spent on furniture, TVs, special coffee machines, mini fridge etc. The hangar is brand new and state of the art and can house all of our planes. We have a $32,000 John Deer tractor with multiple attachments. It's main purpose is to tug our airplanes around the hangar and ramp. But it can also snowplow, forklift and do many other things too. Pretty crazy. The offices are great upstairs with lots of room for everyone, and the pilots have a little lounge area as well. So it's pretty nice all around. I'll take some pics and post 'em up as soon as most of the kinks are worked out and it's looking its best.
Poker update... it had to happen
I won't go into great detail, but I took a trip (online) into some cash games (1/2 limit) and got hit pretty good by bad plays and suck-outs. So I opted to hope into a no limit game and play super tight and make it back. It was a success, up until the point when my AA got cracked by QQ on an all in move where the Q came on the turn after all the chips were in after a rag flop. That's poker unfort, I was quite irked and so I'm taking a break for a few days. It was a costly day at profits standing at -$180 for the day. It sucked.
So there's the goods on my 100th blog post. My flying schedule right now has me not booked on any flights until March 9th! Haha, that'll change but it's just not too busy right now. I go on days off this weekend and monday, so I'll be taking it super relaxed and looked forward to my next flight being operated entirely out of our new building.
4 comments:
Cool new feature Matt, I zoomed in on YLW in satellite mode and checked out my work, the satelitte image is a little old though, as theres a few buildings missing from the airport thaty have been there for 2 years.
Yeah, same with most of the images and even the much more advanced Google Earth seems to have many images that are 5 years or older. One of the airports we fly into in the summer just south of Calgary is Okotoks, and the picture doesn't have the entire subdivision of houses that pack the westside of the airport. Too bad they don't keep the database up to date, but I'd imagine that just running the shear volume of satellite images in the program is immense enough that to keep them all updated would be too excessive. Still, it is a neat feature that I will continue to update. I've pretty much hit 3 corners of North America, not sure however that I want to hit the North Eastern corner though... not much out there!
...now if you had a gf in each of the places you've passed thru...
i kid i kid (and hopefully no kids :S)
Thats quite the impressive flying portfolio!
100th blog... how far you from 100th flight? Approx ~60 destinations... must be approaching or surpassed the 100th?
I've flown to those destinations many times, over and over.
On a quick look at my logbook I have flown 360 flights since I've been at AirSprint. That's a lot of ups and downs! :)
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