Well, without a wife around to pleasantly distract me, I have moved my obsessive tendencies back to airplanes. I realized that as I have been trying the online dating thing with limited success, that I would rather focus the majority my energy on designing and building airplanes than trying to do all that I can to find the right woman.
Don't get me wrong, I still need and very much want to find her, but the freedom to consume myself with work and play involving airplanes has proven very rewarding. So, I expect that the next few posts will go back to the airplane theme that I had originally envisioned. I have a DLG glider that I am finishing up, and I just presented my first-ever helicopter design paper... Work looks to be pretty busy, both in design and programmatic activities, and we're going to do a wind tunnel test in about a year, so I will be trying to learn and do a much as I can. I love my job! That doesn't mean that I can't love other jobs more, and I have a few designs that I am going to make ready for production and try to sell as a side business. Needless to say, starting and running a business is very time-consuming, and having a full+ time job alongside will make things tough. Long days ahead, by choice.
When I started adding up all the hours that I want to pour into these airplane activities, I made the aforementioned realization. I'll still try to find her, but I'm going to let that happen on its own timeline. There is also the matter of my 60lb warm fuzzy, Lucy, who may well be the most uniformly good creature that I have in my life. Time with chicks needs to take into consideration time that Lucy is alone. Lucy has kept me sane, and even taught me how to have fun while running. I have never been able to enjoy running for its own sake, but I find myself smiling on my runs now (seriously, every time for the last two months), and I was even running while laughing hysterically the other day. Time with Lucy gets my mind and body into better shape, so I will be ready when I meet her. Lucy is a gift from God, and I am not going to take that lightly.
So, the journey continues. Next up are model airplane tips, tricks, and frivolity. Until then, I present Snowman and Snowdog, the first item on the 2010 list to be checked off.
