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Yes.  Hitchhiker’s Guide.  When it’s time to say goodbye, sometimes there isn’t much to say.

I spent 4 years working hard and learning much.  I guess that is when I’m happiest, when I’m in learning mode.  But even with great technology, sometimes the market is just not right and it is taking just a bit too much time.  That means something has got to be done.  So, before that something, I decided to leave for greener pastures.

With the new job in the pocket, I had to say goodbye to the old.  It was tough.  People make the difference in the workplace.  These are good people.  But after a final yoga class and sandwiches.. no, no goodbye lunch for me, I shook some hands and left.  It was like a weight was lifted.  Funny how you don’t realize how the fishbowl looks from inside the fishbowl.

The next day was the next job.  Good job.  A place to learn lots of new things.  A solid company.  A new start.  But as I sit here at home after my first full week, I can’t help but think about how chance lines things up.  Sometimes for success.  Sometimes for failure.  If you’ve ever read “The Unbearable Lightness of Being” [a bit racy] by Milan Kundera.. six chance events that bring us to our fate…

Where ever you end up, there you are.

Sometimes there is nothing left to say, except ..

Thanks for all the fish.

 

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Friday Harbor is on San Juan Island in Washington’s Puget Sound. In Flight Sim X, a flight simulation, Friday Harbor is the default airport. I have been flying from that airport for months without knowing where San Juan Island is located. Imagine the excitement when I learned that we were a ferry jump away from Friday Harbor when on a Road Trip in August. Imagine my disappointment when we missed our ferry and had to settle for Orcas Island.

Hmmm.. Talk about disappointment.. until while walking around Eastsound on Orcas, that we ran into this:

 

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It just happened that this was the weekend for the annual “Fly In”. The pilots there were rather disappointed that there were so few planes this year. It turns out that the weather proceeding the event had been pretty bad and most pilots were not willing to take a chance on the trip just for bad weather. You can get a fair idea of the weather from these pictures.  By the way, I think there were over 50 planes there.

There were some “Experimentals”, planes that people build themselves. I spoke to one guy that took 10 years to build his, spending quite a bit of money. He said you can now buy the plane for $60,000. I think he assessed his investment as over $110K. But much of what he put into the plane was not available when he started.

 

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There was a fair bit of low pass flying which was the excitment of the FlyIn ..

 

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Until the real fun began as this pair of T-6s made their way down the runway and started some very nice formation flying.

 

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Their low passes were thrilling to watch/hear/feel !!

 

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Here is the view of Orcas Island Ferry Port as we were leaving.

 

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Ask me what I now think about missing a ferry…

 

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