Today has been a very good day. I woke up early, but not early enough to study for my two tests tomorrow (why is it that even when I'm only taking two classes, I will always be doomed to have both with exams on the same day?). Daylight savings time has made it so hard to wake up in the dark of the morning.

I made it to work just in time for my how-to-fly-the-space-shuttle class. After class, we grabbed a quick lunch and then we went and flew the space shuttle. Seriously. Well, at least a simulator that moves and banks like the space shuttle. I got to fly FOUR landings. And I road along for about 10 others. I didn't have any perfect landings, but I was pretty close to the landing targets (airspeed, touch down point, verticle rate, etc.) on a few of them and I only landed short once. Then, just for fun, we did an ascent, where they flip the simulator so we lie on our backs and it starts shaking and rolling like an shuttle launch. It was awesome -- I've always wanted to do that!

Since the day is only getting better, the weather is beautiful, breezey, and the first race of regatta season is upon us. So, I will depart work and go sailing at 5 p.m. today! Yeah for sailing season! I guess that's one perk of daylight savings time (we only race on wednesday nights when it stays light enough for it...)

The only downside to this happy day is that in all likelihood I am going to be up all night studying. Woe is me.

Maybe one of these days I'm going to get around to telling you why my neighbors thing Bennet is a vicious attack dog. I just haven't gotten to that tale of my suburban hell yet.