The lovey dovey blog post

Words seem to come up short when I try to explain the relationship I have with my practically perfect wife. I am more of a music person, but I have yet to find a song that does her justice. Maybe that’s why we have never really had a song. There isn’t one out there good enough yet. She is an example to me and helps me become a better person. I love you gorgeous. I truly am happy together with you.

I have midterm in Flight mechanics in two and a half hours so I am writing a quick blog. to relive some building stress. this will be a quick look in to my political perspective. point #1 the best goverment is to have a King benjemen / christ type of King things get done quickly when needed and the person is good. the worst type of goverment is to have a bad king. a republic and or democrcy is slow inefficient and wastfull. the hope is if at lest 50% of the people are good. then good choices will be made. I believe 50% or more of the people in America are good. I also believe that only 15-20% of the people actually care enough to get involved and at lest try to understand whats going on. so its easy to trick the 80% that don't have time to understand whats going on.

Point #2 best way to reduce the inherent inefficiency of a Democracy is to keep it small Public works (roads, irrigation, public utilities, national defence) that's about it.

well I'll continue later I do have test soon. comments? questions? discuss amongst yourselves.

Working hard Job nibbles

I spent the day at my sister and brother-in laws house helping install a fence and finishing some steps. started around 9:00 am finished around 7:00 pm it was a long day but we got a lot done. I have got two emails from potential employers. and I am still under consideration for 6 different jobs at Boeing. one of the potential employers that contacted me is a small start-up in Kent Wa that is attempting to create and mar kit the first auto pilot for small helicopter's. that could be fun. time will tell. It helps to have at least a little interest otherwise it could get a bit discouraging, being turned down or looked over time and time again.

senior desgin

Hello another School post. the senior aero design project for AA at the UW is possibly one of the best funded in the country. things being a little tight this year we have a total of only 40 to 50 thousand dollars to spend on it. oh by the way this is only half of the 40 or so students that make up the senior class the other half are in space design. that's around two thousand dollars a student. and that is just for hard ware and some services. a lot more time and services get donated. this year the class has been tasked with building a quite, modern version of the concord. a super sonic passenger jet that sits 100 people and will not have landing restrictions like the concord did because it was so loud. we build a scale model of course not the real plane. the model should weigh 20 lbs or so when done be about 8 feet long and have a 5 to 6 foot wing span. It will be powered by a model turbo jet engine sucking real A1 Jet fuel. producing about 18 lbs of thrust.
I am the CAD (computer aided drafting) team leader we get/have to learn Unigraphics and produce multiple virtual models for the aero group to test. they run the model through CFD (computational fluid dynamics)program once the aero group is happy with the model it gets sent to the pros and they make a wind tunnel test model per our drawing to be tested in the big wind tunnel on campus. big is about 8 by 12 by 15 feet test section wind speed of up to 200 miles an hour. The whole tunnel is housed in its own building its pretty cool. oh did I mention that the final drawings need to be sent out in about 5 weeks. I will be so busy but it is kind of cool at the same time. I will try and post a short vid of the 2006 plane in flight.

Health Insurance

So I thought I would update the world on the health insurance thing. I applied for and recived late admitance into the UW health insurance plan. I havent had time to read all the perticulars yet but I feal better knowing that the family is insured. having constant covarage also helps when moving to new policies.

UW aeronautics and astronautics

Well I have a few moments before the buss comes so here is a little more about school. I have been going to college in some form or another for 10 years. the AA department at the UW is the best funded of all the schools I've gone to but I can't say that the quality of the education stands head and shoulders above the rest. there are good teachers and bad ones. it is ranked 17 in the country for aeronautical engineering, 20th for engineering in general. That said I am finally taking a class that is about air planes it is called flight mechanics. and it is hard. very interesting but hard. home work is about 5 questions long and takes 8-10 hours to do. often times one question will have over 20 inputs just to get at one number. more than once there is not a way to find the solution with out writing an iterating code. this means an equation does not exist so you have to guess what a good answer would be and then check it to see if it works. using computers this is not that bad but I pity the people that took this class 40 years ago. its actually nice because now that I am not working I have enough time to do the home work and understand the material.

hello world

Well I've decided to start sharing my point of view with the world. Or at least with people who happen to stumble upon this little bit of the web. I am foremost a husband. I am also a father a student and an engineer. In 4 months I will graduate from the University of Washington Aeronautical and Astronautical engineering program. It is hard but interesting. I have been working as a engineering tech for 5 years well until two weeks ago when I was laid off. so now I have time to start a blog. I have some home work coming up so I don't know when I will get around to finishing up the sight and making it look pretty I am not much of an aesthetic person any way. well lets all try to enjoy the journey until next time.