Unemployed

being unemployed makes you feel inadequate. first there is the fact that you were chosen to be layedoff instead of someone else. I'm OK with that part. then there is the dozens of people you send your resume off to often times spending time to modify it so that it fits that job perfectly. Only to receive nothing in response. most places don't even say no thank you just nothing which seams to say "you are not worth my time and effort" I have got at least one nice rejection letter. that's better than nothing.

That being said I have had a few more nibbles. the person I have been dealing with in the helicopter company in Kent responded saying he was looking for other work and if he found a new job then the company might hire me to replace him. I have also been speaking with the Navy. not something that I would of thought about myself. the recruiter sent out an email or two to all people studying engineering at the UW informing us of the positions open as a nuclear officer. I am too old to be a normal officer but I do qualify for as a position as a instructor at Nuclear power school in SC. from what I can tell its equivalent to teaching at the community college level. if I get the Job I would be a commissioned officer in the Navy. the Navy is flying me out to the school in goose creak SC on the 11-13th of march. so if nothing else I get a free plane ride out of the deal. I'll try and keep everyone posted.

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.