Archive for July, 2009

My Android is complete!

Thursday, July 30th, 2009

I’ve had my T-Mobile G1 for about 9 months now. For the most part I love it. Being able to use the Internet at 3G speeds is awesome. On issue though is tethering. What is tethering? Well tethering is being able to use my cell phone as a modem so I can browse the Internet [...]

I should have only invested in Orchid

Wednesday, July 29th, 2009

I own a few stocks. Not many….just a few…okay 3. I bought shares of AMR, Orchid Biosciences and Expressjet last year. AMR and Expressjet are both aviation related companies. Orchid Biosciences is Kelli’s employer. Last summer I bought AMR around $9 a share, Orchid at $0.92 a share and Expressjet at $0.41 share. Since then [...]

Ehh…better of two evils

Wednesday, July 29th, 2009

I work in an industry that is 100% based on seniority. Whoever has been here the longest has a better quality of life. On the day I was hired each pilot was assigned a seniority number based on birthdate. Whoever was the oldest in my new hire class (about 35 pilots) got the next highest [...]

I don’t want to risk having to call XM again

Tuesday, July 28th, 2009

Music. Digital Music. Kelli and I together pay over $400 a year just to hear music. Kinda crazy eh? I thought so. We both have XM radios in our vehicles. We paid roughly $20 a month for both radios to receive programming. I only drive 11 miles to work. Roughly a 15 minute drive. If [...]

San Diego in a flash

Monday, July 27th, 2009

We are very used to non-rev travel. It’s how we get around. We are lucky that we live in a major Hub, have no kids and know how to pack efficiently. Last weekend was my last weekend off for a while. We wanted to take advantage of the time off so we headed to San [...]