Kaden Flight Simming

Kaden has taken a large interest lately in playing flight sim with me. The past week or so, we've put in several hours. He like to yank and bank more than anything, but what more can you expect.

Either way, they make for cute pictures...

2006 Exercise Totals

Here are some details from my running log that I keep at Cool Running:

Running: 61.2 miles
Time: 9h 49m 24s
Avg. Pace: 9:38/mile

Cycling: 21.3 miles
Time: 1h 41m 34s
Avg. Pace: 4:47/mile

Swimming: 0.1 miles

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These are all starting on October 29th, so they aren't very much. I started running a bit before this, but not much. Today was my last run at 3 miles in 29 minutes outside in the rain and 47F with winds 17G25. Yuck.

Anyway, my 2007 running goal is 500 miles. We'll see how that goes.

Toledo Italian & Jazz

Tonight, Laura and I dropped off Kaden with grandma and grandpa and headed up to Toledo meet up with Corey & Kelly for some food and fun. We got some of both at Zia's at the Docks and then headed over to Murphy's Place Jazz which is a club downtown.

It was a great night and was loads of fun to get caught up with C&K again. It's been awhile since we went up last.

Whitney & I Fly To Fort Wayne

Whitney and I took Justin's laptop back to him in Fort Wayne today. I needed a reason to fly and this seemed as good as any. Whitney came and we turned it into a sibling breakfast visit. It was nice to fly over and then relax at Bob Evans and then get the nickel tour of Justin and Crystal's house. It's looking good!

The flight there and back were great with some fog over some of the landscape. Check it out for yourself in the photos.

You can view all the photos by clicking here.

Friday Room Addition Update

I haven't done an update lately because not much has happened lately. Once they finished the roof and wrapped the outside in "home saran wrap", the next thing to do is windows and siding. Well, these aren't coming in until next week, so this week they've done some work on the overhang for the 24' x 18' deck. As of this morning, the can lights were in and the ceiling fan mounts were in as well. Also, the base boards for the deck are mounted on the house.

This weekend will be time to run some speaker, network and TV cable. Can't wait to get moving!!

Check out all the updated photos by clicking here.

Christmas 2006

After many parties and not many photos, Christmas time is over for one more year. We probably ended up doing about six or seven parties, but it was good to see family and friends again.

Check out all the photos from the holiday by clicking here.

(Not So) Fat Brandon

I just wanted to post, for posterity sake, the day I weighed under 220 pounds again. I came in just under, but it counts. It seems eating healthy and exercising 3-4 times per week works.

Why didn't anyone tell me before!!! :-p Kidding.

Kaden And The Tree

Here are a few pics of Kaden and the Christmas tree and a few of him outside with his shades.

You can see all the photos by clicking here.

Monday Room Update!

Well, it is pretty much resembling a room now with a floor, four walls and a roof. They put up the roof today and put down the tar paper(?) and is ready for shingles tomorrow. They are kicking butt and taking names with this room addition.

You can check out all the updated photos by clicking here.

3.1 Of Arrow Time - Oh Yeah!

Since my birthday is tomorrow, my present was to get to do a big day of flying. I started this morning out by picking up Laura's brother and his son for a breakfast flight to Mansfield (MFD). We loaded up the Arrow for an uneventful flight to the Flying Turtle. We were the first ones there, but by the time we left, there were nine planes on the ramp with more incoming. Busy!

We made it back to Bluffton to high winds, but landed safely. I pushed the airplane back in, dropped them off and got Laura to the airport. We loaded up and launched for a late lunch in Muncie, IN (MIE). Vince's Restaurant is fantastic and I can't wait to go back. The food is awesome and the view from the restaurant over the ramp is great. We poked around some new airplanes sitting out there (Archer 6XT, some LSA and a TBM-850 - YUMMMM) and headed back to Bluffton. Since we were going about 100knots GS on the way to MIE, we were coming back at a solid 190 knots GS at 5500'. I beat the wind gods today!

Anyway, you can check out all the photos by clicking here.




That 201 knots GS on the GPS is while we were descending into Bluffton. We were getting about 190 knots GS solid at 5500'. Sweet! That's 230mph for the normal people.