Wishy Washy

My sim evaluation went pretty well on Tuesday. The sim was not as hard as I was expecting, which actually threw me off a bit — that and the fact that my last sim was at the end of February and I felt very rusty. Still, overall I did ok. The main feedback I got from the flight director is that I was too “wishy-washy” in how I dealt with one of the failures we had. He wanted me to be more firm and directive in my calls, and to have a more defined line-in-the-sand when I need to make a choice between two options. It’s not an unfounded piece of feedback, however, I also think that it’s pretty dang difficult to have a line-in-the-sand when it comes to trajectory issues. It’s not like we have a temperature or pressure that we’re watching, and when it exceeds a certain limit we do x, y, and z. Trajectory issues are much more nebulous.
Anyway. It’s done, and that’s what makes me happy. Now I have to wait at least another two months before there’s an opportunity to certify.
In other news, work on our house continues. There hasn’t been much happening over the past few days because they should be preparing to fix the items our inspector pointed out as deficient.

Yesterday we noted the following new additions: Boracare termite treatment has been applied to the bottom of the entire frame as expected (that’s why the bottom 2 feet of the house are now blue), the Green Guard has been sealed up on the outside of the house, and we have a chimney (as in, the actual tubing from the fireplace to the chimney structure). Of course the fact that they ran the chimney piping up the chimney means that we can’t see the structure anymore, which means we can’t check to see if they added the bracing they needed to. My bet is that they did NOT, since they haven’t anywhere else. So hooray, they’ll get to take the piping out again. That’s what they get!
Also, I posted some of the proofs from our engagement session over on the wedding blog so you can check that out if you are interested.