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

So instead of 2 hour commute, I again had to wait 3 hours for the flight then the 2 hour flight. The first one had plenty of seats the second one only had a couple seats all middles.

The extra 3 hours has killed me, I am tired and have a splitting headache, I have been up again since 3:00 a.m.

I know things need to change, especially in motivation…

Some aspirin, then to writing and to bed early, we will see how it goes.

But back to the dilemma, I need to work on my essays for school, but I also need to pick up more hours (money), So today do I go back to San Francisco or stay in Phoenix?

San Francisco, I could get some studying done, sleep in my own bed but use up a lot of hours just commuting back and forth or Phoenix where I could get some studying done, sleep at a friends on the couch and have all those extra hours I wouldn’t be commuting for studying.

It is tough, like I have said before I feel home lost.

I know that I need to get both things accomplished school and work, and this trip though it looks good and no early morning check-ins, I have only been able to exercise and get some studying done.

I tried last night but the internet here at this hotel in Pittsburgh reminds me of the good old days of dial-up, slower than slow.

I do like Pittsburgh, I like the view out the window, but I feel Pittsburgh is fading like Detroit, because the corporations have moved out leaving the cities and people to fend for themselves.

Sad there is so much Rich American History in both places.

Time to finish getting ready and fly to Phoenix. I’ll let you know what happens.

So I opted to stay in Phoenix, I picked up a trip that reports at 5:40 a.m. in Phoenix which means getting up Thursday morning at 3:00 a.m. OUCH!!!

So flying home last night just to have to fly back this afternoon would have been hard, and long hours. Staying in Phoenix, my friends are great and even though I always sleep it not a good sleep.

But I am thankful

So after a quick 45 minute nap to recharge the batteries, I started doing more chores things I have needed to get done.

Though I would like to study, and which I should study this is a chance to get so extra things done that I normally would be flying into Phoenix.

I also started doing some extra research, I know like I don’t have enough things going on already but research is fun keeps the mind active.

I also have this handy little program that converts and scanned document into a usable word document. Read Iris, which is just a fabulous tool they also have a scan pen Iris Pen 6, which I also have that has helped me so much with notes, I don’t need to highlight just use the pen and it scans right into Word.

Which I think will be very helpful to students everywhere. Have a scanned document, convert it to text then save a PDF, send it to an eReader of your choice. Hopefully mine will be the iPad  by Apple when it comes out.

Take it with you and read, my back is so happy. I love book truly do but try carrying around textbooks and other reading material, my bag for books must weigh 40 pounds. Ouch!

Plus all the other stuff I need to take with me on my trips, I really live most of my days these past years in a suitcase, more so because of being back on reserves and commuting.

It is getting late and I need to get some sleep so I can get up and take the 9:00 a.m. flight to Phoenix.

As always it is hard to study, to much going on. To many conversations all at the same time, it gives you a head ache. So to avoid the talking I went for 1 hour and 40 minutes walk around the balcony, it took 1 minute and or 93 steps to complete. Walking for a 100 minutes = 100 laps or 9300 steps. Actually it felt good.

Nice to have the movement, I need it.

Not much happened at all the rest of the day, I did not pay attention to the news though I did inquire as to the cost of an online subscription to the Wall Street Journal, because the New York Times is thinking of a cost between $9.99 to 30.00 a month.

For the new iPad, which is ridiculous because I certainly wouldn’t pay that amount and I don’t think that they will get many that will pay that kind of money for online reading.

Even with the success of Apple’s iTunes companies have complained about Apple’s pricing strategy of $.99 yet they are now after 7 years approaching 10 billion downloads.

Apple has let some make pricing adjustments, (raise the price) yet download have drop 8 to 10 percent every month since companies have been changing the prices.

Me I really believe $.99 per song is a good price and I have to say that of all the downloads at least 20 percent have been the album anyway not just a song.

But I don’t think corporate America will wake up to that fact, it is always trying to push more and more out of the consumer.

At 5:45 I got on the flight back to San Francisco, totally filled as always. Who says people are not flying. It was a pleasant flight with no real mishaps.

I will have to go back in on Friday, but it leaves me with 2 full days of studying, exercising and scanning.

So I am off for a bit a reading before lights out.