A Post From Clif:

As my favorite time of the week approaches, I thought I would log on and make a post – my favorite time of the week is 1:00pm on Sunday.  Why you ask? Well DirecTV has enjoyed having Emily and I as customers sooo much that, since we stayed faithful employees when we moved, they would give us 5 months free of NFL Sunday Ticket.  Basically that means that I can watch EVERY NFL game…so at 1 o’clock there are EIGHT! 8!! OCHO!! Games on at one time.  I can actually see all 8 games on one screen at one time.  It is a dream come true!!   Emily now has a fantasy football team and she puts 10 cents bets in on the games, so it gets her involved! And if I keep her posted on how she is doing, she has no problem letting me sit in my chair for HOURS…

So what has been going on with me?  Well, Emily has kept you posted on most things but I will jump around and touch a few topics.

I am very excited about getting my wife a bike!  I haven’t biked in a long time because it is tough for me to be gone for 12 hours every day of the week and go to be very early every night and then tell her I need to go to bed early on Friday nights to get up early and be gone for another 4 hours on Saturday morning – so now we can spend that time together.  Also, a lot of guys in my squadron bike and sometimes the Majors and Captains will grab us RACs (Replacement AirCrew – new pilots) and get us to go with them – so that gets us out of the office and is a nice break to the day. 

As far as flying goes, please don’t ask me if I am flying – it will be a few months, I have a lot to learn and go through first before I get back up in the air.  The CH-53 is 15 to 20 times bigger than the TH-57.  The 53 can carry 10 57s…that is pretty sweet!  I enjoy learning everything and trying to handle it all.  I am starting sims (simulators) this week and make have a few more the next few weeks.  Then, I got to SERE school out in North Island, CA…SERE = Search, Evasion, Rescue and Escape… We learn about all of those elements for a week and then we put it into practice for a week.  After I get back from that, I will finish up some sims and then start flying – which will be around Thanksgiving time.  It is frustrating not being able to fly…I haven’t flown since the end of July and I am craving it!  But I’ll get back to it.   

I enjoy North Carolina…it is a nice area and as you have seen, Emily and I enjoy our house. 

Well…Emily just finished making breakfast…so I’m gonna head to the porch and get some breakfast and read some “Fathered by God”.  Have a good one!

P.S.  For all you women out there that didn’t get enough detail (cough…mom…cough) out of my post, I’ll have Emily make a more detailed post – or you can just text her – You are just lucky I didn’t type this out in bullet points like I wanted to (like my dad taught me).