I just finished another excellent (though light) book this weekend: Blowing My Cover: My life as a CIA spy. It made me want to be a spy. Or not.

Other books I recommend this year: Reading Lolita in Tehran, The Sex Lives of Cannibals, and Persepolis.

Now, I'm on to more trash, the lastest Terry Goodkind book, Chainfire. Random fantasy books always make me happy.

This morning I got all my FDO training guides. As usual, these things seem daunting until you start tackling it and right now the training guide is sitting on my desk daring me to get started. I also got a "welcome to the group" pep talk with the dose of reality sprinkled in. The dose of reality is that I'll be competing with a lot of people for sims and, oh, by the way, here's the flight assignment list and don't expect to be assigned to anything for a couple of years (the only reason it didn't depress me is that I'll still get to work at least one flight as an LSO before then). The pep talk portion (at least for me) is the "I came from analysis too, and operations is very different, and we do things differently here" (I know different isn't always better, but it still made me want to scream "Hallaleujah brother" when he said it).

So, that's my day. Its a short week for me - I depart for skiing (yeah skiing!) this Friday (just two days on the slopes, unfortunately, but c'est la vie). The weather forecast for this weekend in Killington, VT: Party cloudy, High < 10 degrees, Low, -10 degrees. 98 of 200 trails open (hopefully they are making snow like crazy), 24-36" base of packed powder. Not great by Rockies standards, but pretty excellent for vermont. Looks like they'll get some fresh snow this week too.