Well, another duty block has ended. Another 6 days of scooting a few dozen tonnes of metal and padding around the skies of Europe comes to a quick and painless end. Now I'm happily on leave for 10 days.
So I sit on my balcony and, beer in hand, and look upriver to watch the sun sink slowly down behind the O2 and Canary Wharf like a bad metaphor for something other people have to worry about. Sure, things aren't perfect at the moment - I'm short of cash and I still know practically nobody in London. However, right now, right this second as I relax and I know that there's no early start tomorrow no worries about being on time, no ironing uniform, no delays, no slot times, no loadsheets, no fuel figures, nothing but a vague sense of having accomplished a decent first stint as a fully-fledged Pilot and now I've got a good couple of weeks off to chill out, go and see the folks and generally just enjoy the fact I'm young and it's summer.
Tomorrow I'm off into town to spend the day with the Lovely Liz, the Lovely Liz-y-Beth and Steph, who is as yet ungraded but gets a provisional 'Lovely' on the basis of recommendation from the Liz-y-Beth. We shall be out taking photos. Wait, there's a moment here for awe at Science...
Cameras will be pointed and, through science, staggering numbers of photons will cause barely measurable differences in the movement of electrons in a detector array, in turn causing immeasurable binary switches to flip state to create what will later be decoded (again, through Science) into little currents of electrons that will change some orientation of millions of little blocks of a few molecules of coloured crystal, through which we will then shine light created by exciting electrons in a particular chemical, creating a faithful reproduction of the original photons we captured earlier. They call this a digital photo. We will do this hundreds of times.
Oh also, we're off to see QI get recorded.
tl;dr: Life is good. Science is awesome.
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