The summer of my discontent is now over. It is time to move on, and in doing so I want to acknowledge a flashback that I experienced yesterday while reading posts on a Flight Simulator bulletin board. There were several posters sharing questions and comments about their experiments and experiences using small aircraft to make around the world journeys within the confines of various versions of the Microsoft program. I related very well and was amused to read the discussions about problems that I myself had dealt with, long ago. It seems my enthusiasm for such fantasy is not so unique, after all. I felt I had pretty much "out grown" the "game," but those reads rekindled a spark in my imagination and I found myself pondering that for a while. I'm still thinking about it.

I may yet write a meaningful piece about the whole FS relevancy, as I see it...but not today. For the moment I'm going to content myself by picking up my blog with this entry. It seems Blogspot has made some improvements and I need to study those to see how best I can utilize them.

In the meantime, inspired by the posts I read yesterday I took of on a flight from Houston to Tahiti, using a Gulfstream V. I left rather late (3:45PM CDT) and arrived around 9PM, Tahiti time. I don't expect much to come from this journey, but it was something to do. My version of Flight Simulator (FS2002) is the best I can do with my current PC. I'll have to do a major upgrade before being able to handle FSX, which is due for release later this year. I don't know how I'm going to afford that, maybe I can get lucky and scavenge parts from my job.

I would like to do more to share the FS world with others that I think might benefit from the program's particular form of escape, but for that I will need to revisit and finally learn to utilize the Web space provided by Road Runner. Right now that seems to be a task that would require more energy than I have today.