4 posts tagged “airplanes”
A vital step in the process of getting settled in the new house has been completed: we have high-speed Internet access. Compared to the hoops of fire we had to jump through to accomplish this back in Texas, getting connected here was a breeze. Score one for Cox; we'll see how the rest of their service stacks up.
Having said access allows me to do exciting things like share the news of what M will be flying as his fleet aircraft. We found out this morning that he will be a C-2A Greyhound pilot. The Greyhound is the COD, which stands for Carrier Onboard Delivery, meaning that he will be flying cargo and people and what-have-you to aircraft carriers. I plan to tell new acquaintances that my husband is a Greyhound driver and watch them try to puzzle out what on earth a bus has to do with Naval Aviation.
...and yes, I'm absolutely okay with that! Naval Aviation will make you say some pretty strange things sometimes, and being able to say -- with a straight face, mind -- that I was absolutely ecstatic to find out today that my darling husband is a hooker is definitely one of them.
Okay, further explanation is probably in order: M has been away since late last week on the carrier qualification (CQ) detachment, and I'd been waiting on the edge of my seat ever since for the word that he completed the necessary traps (landings aboard the aircraft carrier) to earn the right to call himself a tailhooker. The tailhook, of course, is what the planes landing on the carrier use to catch a wire to decelerate themselves. The video below shows an earlier CQ det, and it might give you an idea of the sort of thing my husband's been up to recently.
I don't think I could be any more proud of M right now. He's worked hard for this accomplishment and I know he'll be fantastic in whatever comes down the pipeline next. Right now, though, I just can't wait for him to get home so we can celebrate!
After many happy months of using various lovely pre-made themes, I decided to jump belatedly on the bandwagon and try my hand at making my own banner. This one was cobbled together quickly, but it'll do for a while.
In other news, things here haven't been too terribly exciting, aside from one nasty thunderstorm that yielded torrential, sideways-blowing rain that came in under our front door (expected, with the lousy quality of weatherstripping) and seeped through one of the locks (unexpected, and rather alarming). I'm not eager for another storm like that anytime soon, especially since I was embarrassed to note that the tile around our entryway looks cleaner than it did before our mini-flood. I guess it's time to bust out the mop again (mutter, grumble, &c.).
