Jon's Fall Folly

I know that an entry is long overdue, but it will have to be a short one today so that I can have time to eat and make it to work this afternoon. Ugh... where to start? This week was UD's homecoming. I was relieved to not be as involved with the planning as I was last year. I made it to the volleyball and soccer games during week. Yesterday I took the cross country team up to La Crosse, WI through quite a bit of fog. We made it safe and sound though. It was a big meet so the posted results may not be indicative of our team's performance in relationship to our goals. We had several PR's on the day and the music before, during, and after was quite entertaining. Our men and women were also quite pumped up from the pep rally the night before and the various other spirit building activities that took place this week. Several runners commented that this was the most fun meet yet and to those that had run the Dr. Tucker at the soccer complex in Dubuque in previous years, this was a big improvement. So, I didn't get to go to the football game, but we caught the end of the fourth quarter after the Iowa (vs. Wisconsin) game and once we were in radio range. I attended the homecoming dance at the Masonic Temple with last year's homecoming queen, Christine Roller, to crown the 2008 king and queen. We're hoping this will become a tradition. 

Flying is going well. By my estimation I will be on track to finish by the end of the year. I'm hoping to get standardized at the University after earning my rating and be ready for a few students next semester. 

This week I'm taking a couple days off to fly out to New Hampshire to hang out with my former roommate Karl Biermann. He is currently living near Manchester and flying Pilatus PC-12's for a company called Plane Sense. I don't know much about it, but I'm sure you could Google it. The flights to BOS look better so I'm planning on using that airport. Karl said it's a 45 min drive either way you look at it. 

I may have missed some newsworthy items in my rush to finish this and I don't have pictures to include, but I may go back and edit this later or make a new post. Hopefully there will be less time between this and my last post.