A short video of one of my better solo landings.  If you have audio you can hear my instructor (who is from New Zealand) giving me moral support through the entire landing.

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Today, for the first time in my life, I flew a plane by myself.  The experience was incredible.

This is a picture of me soon after I landed. (Note the feces consuming grin.)

"Be Pavlov. Not the dog." - Patrick Rhone

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Was sitting in my living room today thinking of ways to photograph our newly harvested Christmas Tree when it occurred to me to try taking a picture from inside the tree.  Taking my trusty iPhone with me I ventured headfirst into Holiday uncertainty and took a series of photos.  These were the best two.  They are both the same shot, just one of them has the iPhone's HDR feature turned on.  Which do you like better, HDR (picture 1) or Normal (picture 2)?

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Had a revelation in my flying lesson today.

"Landing = managing your mistakes well."

Applies to living as well, actually.

Great video on how creativity happens.  

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I have written a short post on paying more for less on simplesean.com.  If you are interested click here to read it.

Interesting behind the scenes look at a wonderful short film.

Ran into this on my way home.  Notice the Chrysler on the flatbed wrecker truck just behind the tractor trailer.  Hope everyone made it out alive.

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