I've Hit A Bump In The Road

I have a dilemma. I started a new job in January that demands more of my time during the day. I used to be able to occasionally get out to the airport and do some flying during the week. With the new job, I don't have time to do that. I have to be on the road by 7:45 AM, at the latest, to be at work by 8:30 AM. Traffic sucks and the best thing about it is I get to ride with my wife and use the HOV lane. I get finished at 5:30 PM and it usually takes an hour to get home. By the time I get home, eat and change clothes, it is 7:15 PM.

Here is where the flag for piling on should be thrown. Since I can only fly on the weekends, I have a very tough time making sure that we have acceptable weather and an airplane. Everybody wants to fly on the weekends. For the last month, we have had bad weather and grounded airplanes. These I can live with. What I am having a problem with is the fact that every time I try to get my instructor to fly on the weekends, he is out of town. I know that he flies a lot during the week. While that may be great for people who have the luxury of being able to sneak away for a while during the week, it really sucks for me. I am so frustrated that I can't get any instruction to finish this wonderful journey I have started, I am even considering giving it up because of this major hurdle.

I have endured financial hardship, a loving and wonderful wife who has sacrificed a lot for me to be able to do this, medical hell just to keep my third class medical current and now this seems like it is the one that may actually derail me. I keep this blog so all of my friends who have supported me can keep up with my training and now I don't have anything good to write and that bothers me. I'll try to do what I can to remedy this. As a matter of fact, I just reserved one of the airplanes for Saturday after I had a talk with my instructor. Of course nothing good is going to come from this as the plane I reserved is now grounded. Maybe it will be fixed by Saturday. Then again, I still have to get another instructor who is available. It sucks to be me right now.