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September 29, 2015
Postcards from the South Part II
On Thursday of my first week in City X, I ventured farther afield – took the light rail and a bus to an in-city area where mountain bike trails were promised. As I discovered later, the directions I had were about 10 years old and didn’t take into account a spiffy new paved trail. So, […]
September 23, 2015
Postcards from the South Part I
My new job has sent me to a city, far from my home in Seattle, to learn about the Airbus 330, one of the planes in the fleet that I see frequently in Seattle. I can’t say what city I’ve been sent to, because it would give away the name of the company; suffice it […]
September 16, 2015
Top 5 Reasons Why Being a New Airplane Mechanic is Awesome
As I have mentioned in previous posts, I was recently hired as a full time line mechanic at a major airline. Yay! This week I’m spending some time at the mothership getting fleet training on the Airbus 330 (sorry Boeing) and it has given me some new reasons to contemplate my good fortune. So, here […]
September 9, 2015
Holy Intrusiveness Batman! Or, How to Defend your Borders
I had an experience recently that made me really glad of the work I have done to learn about personal boundaries and how to enforce them. Someone I encounter in my daily life decided that I needed to be fixed and that s/he would be the one responsible for making it happen. What ensued was […]
September 2, 2015
You Know You’re An Airplane Mechanic When …
You’re constantly slapping yourself on the forehead and wondering why your headlamp isn’t there to light up your food prep/book/sock drawer the way it’s always there for you when you’re working. You come to think of Aeroshell 33 grease as a viable hairstyling product. Your laundry room contains every stain removal agent known to the […]
August 26, 2015
Top 5 Signs that You’re Being Manipulated
Another thing about growing up crazy is that oftentimes people with mental illness or severe emotional problems are adept at manipulating other people in order to get their own needs met. This can happen because they’re not able or willing to try to get their needs met by doing something as straightforward as asking, and […]
August 19, 2015
My Life Hacks
When I was a kid, there was a thing called “helpful hints.” They were collected and disseminated by nice housewifely ladies. Now we have “life hacks” and they’re created and distributed by irony-loving millennials. I’m somewhere between the life hack generation and the helpful hint generation. I have always loved a better mousetrap – a […]
August 12, 2015
What No One Tells you About Growing up Crazy
Lately I have been thinking a lot about what it means to grow up in a crazy household, and how, even though you can leave, you can never really outrun the effects. When I was younger, I didn’t want to believe this. I wanted to believe that life is what you make it – that […]
August 5, 2015
Blog Vacation
As I adjust to my new work schedule and take some time to enjoy summer, I am taking the week off from blogging. See you here next week.Filed under: Uncategorized
July 29, 2015
The Learning (and Fun) Never Stops
Having survived 2 years of airplane mechanic school, and two days of oral and practical exams, I thought I might be done with formal schooling for a while, but since I got hired at my spiffy new major airline job I am finding that the learning never stops. A few weeks ago I had 3 […]
