Okay, maybe Osh afterall

Okay so maybe I will go to Osh. I’m getting more and more pessimistic about the July Vermont contest. I haven’t flown in weeks and I have only a few weeks more to go. I’ll still be headed up to VT regardless, even if I am just volunteering.

With one less contest on the Horizon I’ve got some cash that has been opened up. I decided to put a chunk into www.invertedjourney.com…the actual site. It should be up pretty soon, at least an early embryonic version of it.

My attention is also turned to upgrading my computing capability. I’m currently running a Mac Powerbook….they don’t even make these anymore! It is several years old and still gets 85% of the job done but that last 15% is pretty important. Namely video editing. I want this to be more of a vlog than a blog so I need the capability. I may pick up a second videocamera to get a second angle on my flights. Am I hemorrhaging cash? Yes and at a fairly steady rate. I consider this all an investment, at least that is what I tell myself so that I don’t wake up in the middle of the night in a cold sweat.

Logo, email, video, photo……all coming soon.

Oh crap…flights. That’s right. I still have to fly! With all this downtime and planning the site and moving money around it gets really easy to forget that without the flying side of things I might as well be selling tangerines or toothpicks or some equally arbitrary item. (No offense to the tangerine and toothpick population.) I’m not really selling anything I suppose. I’m not for sale.

I had a great injection of “good” this weekend. I went up to Nashua, NH to volunteer at a Young Eagles event. Young Eagles is a national program sponsored by EAA that introduces kids between the ages of 8 – 17 to flying. Imagine being a kid and going to the airport and getting a ride in an airplane for free? Had I known about this when I was a kid I would have been frothing at the mouth over it. We flew 36 kids before the rain arrived. 36 kids flew in an airplane for the first time. That, in a way, is the entire reason I want to fly airshows. Its not about ego or being a mini celebrity. When I was a kid I saw an airplane and I started dreaming about flying. It enveloped me completely. It all started at an airshow. If I can spark that flame in someone else, consider my job done. The Young Eagles rally was a taste of that and I plan on making that a regular part of my being.