Getting My MBA at 48

A New Month with another essay sent

Today is a new month, scary since the days are coming quicker to an end of this class and nearer to the time of graduation at Western Governors University.

First off let me say that I am behind of where I wanted to be, so I need to be able to make up some time somewhere guess I need to learn how to bend time. A dream would be able to take the whole month let say April and just sit here and study. No distractions from work, flying, passengers, or the long hours of commuting.

If I could have the whole month, I would be done easily with classes by June. But sadly unless something changes I have to work because like most everyone else I need money to survive.

If there are any suggestions out in the world wide web send them my way.

I did manage to finish the Task 2 essay and spreadsheet, found a few mistakes tonight so hopefully all will be well with my submission.

The next 2 essay are on ETHICS, always a good topic yet unlike all the other essays there is no page requirements, curious maybe that has to do with ethical practice to see how many pages you submit.

Out of the next 9 days I have a 4 day trip, 1 reserve day and 3 days off then the last day which is the 10th of March. Gotta love the pressure, NOT!

This trip that scheduling gave me is not going to be a fun trip, it is an older 737 everyday and working all 4 days. The layovers are not bad, no long 24 breaks but I am still looking at only 5 to 6 hours sleep on each of them.

Houston, Texas, Spokane, Washington and back to Houston, at least it is cities that I have not been to in awhile. Not that I will be able to peruse the cities as my nose will be in the books and my butt on the aerobic bicycle.

I find it interesting that I can sit here all day studying and not miss the television, even though most times it is on I am doing something else as it is just background mumbo-jumbo.

I have had my music on all day, I had gotten froggy one day awhile ago and fixed up an G4 Apple desktop computer with a 22-inch flat screen and put all my music on it. 5804 songs and a few movies, though I love my old Technique stereo, this is much more fun. It does use the stereo to play the music I just don’t have to get up and change the music since there is enough music for days, 17.2 days to be exact. And trust me I have it backed up on more than one hard drive to much work to replace, or redo it all.

As this is a new month I thought I would talk about my blog for a minute, for January I had 191 unique visitors and 1263 page visits and for February 175 unique visitors and 1135 page visits each month an average of over 40.54 visits per day.

I’m getting famous, haha.

Yes, I know this is not much in the scheme of things but to me its cool, it also looks like I have quite a few people who have bookmarked me in their browsers or by way of email.

Another cool thing is I have made over $14, which is great but I don’t receive any of it till it reaches a $100. Just the way Google operates. Anyway it is still all fun, and just like the classes I am taking, exercising or studying, writing for this blog takes planning and discipline.

All great lessons for a better me.

I haven’t been posting to my blog at Business Week, so much to do and learn. I have ideas for iPad apps, but until I get past this class, Accounting and get to where I feel comfortable that will have to wait.

I am hoping Santa will visit me when the iPads becomes available, I am looking forward to having one for reading books, my arms and back will be happy to since I will be carrying a lot less weight. Plus the ability to email or write notes where it isn’t convenient to open my MacBook Pro.

It is getting Oh dark 30 and I need to finish up things here in the house and be ready for my commute tomorrow, in addition to my 3 hour airport appreciation.

All total tomorrow I will fly from San Francisco to Phoenix to Houston and it will cost me in 14 hours total.

Ok I need to go… see you later

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Changes in Weather means flexible in Plans

Changes in the weather have been causing people to be flexible in their plans. Like me they have been working me everyday, crazy between the weather and flight attendants calling in sick it causing me to keep revising my plans.

Saturday I spent in used computer stores, and updating my old Apple G4 Tower so I can use my film scanner and backing up all my music on it. Than sat around that night watching movies with Mari’s son. Sunday I left on the early flight 6:00 am San Francisco to Phoenix, because I heard weather was coming. Not wanting to stress about having to get to Phoenix on Sunday because of weather delays I opted for the early flight.

Well the weather didn’t get to San Francisco or Phoenix on Sunday but Monday.

Sunday was a nice day, worked on cleaning my can and studying needless to say my car really really needs a wax job. Later that night I went to see Armored with Matt Dillion and Laurence Fishburne, not a bad movie, enjoyable with plenty of action.

Monday, again stars this major flexible concept, had to go sit at the airport for 5 hours 2:00 p.m.- 7:00 p.m. Well are shift was almost over scheduling assigned us a trip a San Diego turn (fly there turn around and fly home). So much for studying today.

Well we get to the plane and the had just lifted the Air Traffic Control (ATC) weather delay, now we were just waiting for the pilots to come in from home. We found out some of the story, the flight was coming in from Atlanta someone had put a baby diaper in the toilet. Airplane bathroom, especially the toilets can not handle anything like that so, it got clogged. In Phoenix they tried to fix it, they couldn’t so maintenance did all the official paperwork so the plane could go to San Diego and back, which then they could tear it apart.

Well now since they are late (comedy of errors) the flight gets delayed because of weather in San Diego, once  they are in the air more delays, so the flight is now circling over Gila Bend, Arizona. Then has to do a return to Phoenix, bummer for the passengers.

This is now where we pick it up, pilots are there and we have the flight boarded for the second time. I had been trying to get the other toilet to flush, which people had been using. It is now clogged, so maintenance gets us another aircraft.

We all have to deplane and go to the other aircraft, I feel bad for the passengers because they are starting to get grumpy, and who wouldn’t. Yet this started out being cause by a diaper a passenger put in the toilet, then the weather and now the toilet again.

Were rolling toward San Diego, most passengers are in a fairly good mood, major turbulence during take off and landing. But we arrived although late, the passengers were just happy to be there.

A very light load going back to Phoenix, after takeoff we get diverted to Las Vegas to pick up passengers that have had their flights delayed or cancelled. After our pickup in Las Vegas heading to Phoenix again lots of turbulence.

We got into Phoenix at 2:16 a.m., 4 hours later than scheduled.

Not much sleep and no studying, I was hoping to be able to sit here at Winfield’s drink some coffee and get a lot of studying done.

Nope, I have a 3 day trip so I have to get going.

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