http://radarjockey.net Another day in paradise... Sun, 20 Apr 2008 13:38:45 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en They finally did it. Another milestone here at Jimmy D's Air Traffic Work Farm. We officially reached a 3:1 controller to supervisor ratio. When I got to work this Sunday morning, one of the busiest days of the week, we had nine controllers and three supervisors. I'm not including the ... http://radarjockey.net/?p=17 Yay! This will officially be my first post about actual Air Traffic Control, which was initially going to be the primary focus of this blog (thus the title). Unfortunately, reality crept in and I found myself too fatigued from the real job to want to bother spending my free time ... http://radarjockey.net/?p=16 In my previous post about my trip to New York, I mentioned going shopping in New Jersey on the way to upstate New York. That venue was Wine Library, a wine (and beer, liquor, deli) shop in Springfield, NJ, just west of Newark. The director of operations there is Gary ... http://radarjockey.net/?p=15 I'm kind of a tech geek, gadget freak, whatever you want to call it. I don't have it as bad as some people, but I likes me some electronic gadgets. Anyway, I've owned a Garmin Nuvi 660 portable GPS for a while now and used it in three different states ... http://radarjockey.net/?p=12 I love steak. I don't eat it very often, maybe once or twice a month because of the negative "side-effects", but when I do I enjoy it immensely. I also never eat steak at a restaurant. Eating out, steak in my price range is almost sure to be of less ... http://radarjockey.net/?p=10 I got my first phone bill since I switched my service. $59?? There was that feeling in the pit of my stomach again. When I looked at the detailed bill on line, sure enough, they were still billing me for monthly DSL as if nothing had changed. I finally called ... http://radarjockey.net/?p=9 [Author's note: this post was written over the course of a week or more, and for the most part several weeks after the events took place. I can't guarantee that everything happened exactly as told, but it's pretty close, to the best of my recollection.] I live in a small area ... http://radarjockey.net/?p=7 http://radarjockey.net/?p=6 Writers have always said (have they? -ed.) in one form or another that if you want to be a writer, you have to write. I don't really want to be a writer, but I do want to write. Does that make sense? It's therapeutic, and on some level I find ... http://radarjockey.net/?p=3