The usual lack of updating for the usual reasons.
Crazy last few months. Trained on Ground so much I started to burn out on the whole being a studious individual concept. Thankfully I got along rather well with my training team and managed to enjoy the entire process. In December I was recommended for certification and sometime in mid December I had my check ride and of course passed with flying colors.
I worked through the holidays nonstop, minus my usual days off, none of which actually fell on a holiday. This earned me a rather fat bonus on my latest paycheck. In fact somehow I've saved up more than I expected. I had planned on using the holiday bonus to jut get a new video card, which I did, maybe...not really sure if Amazon is lying about it being in stock or not. But I ended up making quite a bit extra on top of what I had planned and so I let myself get a new 5.1 speaker set up for my computer (not that it was very expensive). I guess now I can start seriously looking at cabinets for my future new TV.
For now I'm just burning time on ground working as coverage until my Local Control class starts on January 25th. That'll be 2 weeks of a "normal" work schedule, Mon-Fri, 0700-1500. It will be agonizing to say the least. I've grown quite fond of the odd schedules we work here, although now it seems I'm perpetually on a third swing shift (1400-2200). This kind of nullifies the good of moving to my new Monday/Tuesday days off as I can't even take advantage of Friday nights. Oh well.
Now to get myself back into studious, hardworking mode for Local training. I'm pretty confident this will be my hardest position, although radar may surprise me later.
Maybe I'll update this again when I get local, ha.
