My Riveting Post

Man, I'm really bad at remembering to post. Here's what's new. I'm working on sheet metal in AMT right now. Five weeks worth of sheet metal. Five weeks worth of shearing and bending and drilling and riveting sheet metal. We'll finally be done with it on the 11th of this month. So far, I've built a spark plug tray and a timing light box, I've riveted countless sheets of aluminum together (using both flush and universal head rivets), I've sandpapered a gouge out of a sheet of plexiglass (I know that's not really "sheet metal" but it was still part of the project packet), I've stretched and shrunken angle doublers, and I've constructed a hole finder. I've enjoyed it for the most part (especially riveting), but it's had its frustrating moments and I'm ready to move on to something else.

My twenty-eighth birthday is this Friday. The church we go to here has a special time during announcements every Sunday, where they ask who has a birthday coming in the next week, and then they make those people stand up and the whole church sings Happy Birthday to them. Well, yesterday was my day to be sung to. When it was over and I sat back down, Jenny heard the little girl behind us say, "Mommy, why did we sing Happy Birthday to that big man?" Now that's funny stuff. :)

God willing, I'll start flying again tomorrow after class. I took a break that's lasted about a month, because I had some issues with my new instructor, but now I get to fly with Belinda again and (again, God willing) finally finish my commercial certificate. I'm going to feel like a big, fat failure if we go back to Michigan for Christmas, and I still don't have my commercial. That's a heads-up to anyone who might have to put up with me during Christmas. You've been warned!