The Wheels...

Monday morning is my final Airframe pre-test. It's also the Phase 3 final exam, even though Phase 3 doesn't actually end until late in March. It has to be that way so we can take the exams we need to take, when we need to take them. Practicals begin on March 16. They will involve an oral exam and a hands-on exam for General (Phase 1), and an oral and a hands-on for Airframe (Phases 2&3). Passing means I will have my AMT certificate and my Airframe rating. Phases 4 and 5 will be for Powerplant, and I'll take those practicals in September. And that will be the end of our time in Douglas, AZ. Just over 3 years here... that have seemed like so much longer. And then it's on to somewhere else. Just like that. Maybe some other part of Arizona, maybe some other part of America. Sometimes I'm blessed with an iron-clad certainty that all of this has been according to God's plan for us. Sometimes, I get so caught up in whatever step I'm on, that I completely lose sight of the path. And sometimes I look behind me and can't see where the path started; I look ahead of me and can't see where the path is leading. Those are the times when I feel so infinitesimally tiny that it snatches my breath away from me. Guess which one of those three tonight is.

There's some screwy stuff happening on the Internet tonight. Very strange, indeed.