wow, it has been so long since i posted, they changed it all up in here, hmm.  took me a minute to figure this out.  i don't really have any pics in this computer but i like this one.  this plaque is in the training center and all prospective paratroopers must know it by heart to graduate para training.  this is the kind of thing they don't really publicize...but they should.  i would like to make a t-shirt with the ten commandments on the back and on the front it could say something like "we don't build schools, that's the other guys"  kind of comforting to know that not all of our armed forces are the peace keepy-kind.
thanks to steve-o of the burnt legs for the pic.  soon i can call him steve-o of the paratroopers.

we got an e-mail from the canadian economy and it said it wasn't feeling well, so we went and bought a new boat. I don't know if it made the economy feel any better, but it sure gave us that warm and fuzzy feeling. our boat is the same as the one in the pics but ours has a 60 horse instead of the 40. it's a four stroke, electronic fuel injection, so should be ok on gas. it will be ready for us by the middle of june. yeah I know I don't post often, but when I do, I bring it!

one last bit of leftovers...at midnite.

boom! killshot!

you wascawwy wabbit!

charliebrown made brownies like little mushrooms

brownies are done, waiting for cookies

both kids got nintendo DSxi's for xmas

i tried to rotate the pics but stoopid cumpooter won't do it make hulk annngggryy!! any hoo couple of pics i was gonna do the whole big dealio but i think i'll just wait til the missus sorts out the pics.

my friend Matt Bromley died in the crash the other day. Matt's day actually started in my office that day(he flew the sched flight in to simpson the night before), and we were talking about all the accidents that have happened lately, the weather, the usual stuff. he was a good kid.

Air tindi lost a plane today outside of Lutsle Ke. thats on great slave lake east of yellowknife. as you may recall it's one of the places I travel to for work. Two people died in the crash today. I don't know if one of them is the pilot or not yet. But I'm sure I knew someone on board.

A couple of bad days for northern aviation. Yesterday an Arctic Sunwest charters twin otter crashed in yellowknife, killing both pilots aboard. I knew the gal flying right seat. this morning at about 9:00 local a cessna 206 departed fort simpson headed to a remote hunting camp up the root river(they land on a gravel bar in the river) about an hour later the Joint Rescue Co-ordinating Center in trenton phoned me looking for info on a possible downed aircraft in the mountains west of simpson and south of Wrigley. even though this crash was waaay off in the boonies, it might as well have been right at my airport. Wrigley airport was closed, so I was busy all day dealing with it and in this case there was good news as the pilot was rescued and only suffered minor injuries. frickin' stressful though. when I took my training they told me in school that you go a whole career and never have to deal with a crash-kinda like a cop who goes a whole career and never draws his gun. today was my sixth crash. I'm exhausted.