By myself in the literal sense - getting your pilots license is an odd one because you need to do a certain amount of hours, and a certain amount of sorties, solo before you can actually do your test and receive your license. In effect, some of the examination is devolved to your instructor.

So I'm signed off to fly the plane myself but I've not landed anywhere else by myself yet (Done it twice with an instructor), so this is another step up. Can't take passengers or anything, obviously, and any flying I do is basically under my instructors license so we have to have a big briefing where he double checks my planning and the weather etc.

Writing begging letters :(

Recovering from a brutaltastic hangover ATM (my weekend starts Thurs. night). Had an awesome Insurgency session: first time I killed all the enemies, didn't die once, and even blew up the enemy cache FTW (Market - Hunt in solo).

Hair of the dog this evening. Sat & Sun: Haircut & beard trim, cockroach extermination, walk, laundry. Oh, and loads of movies of course (we're currently watching a French TV series, Les Revenants among several on deck). May have to do a TWR or three.

Ooh, I miss Insurgency - haven't had much chance to play it since the end of last year. One of my favourite games ever I think, really enjoy how it plays. I'll send my SteamID over later

The cockroach killing and hair maintenance aren't part of the same piece of work are they?
 

Although that would be convenient  :-@ , no, they are separate but equal tasks.

Oh man, so jealous. I'd bloody love to do that. Had a flying lesson about 19 years ago and that was awesome. How long did it take you to get to that stage? Think you'll be nervous on your own?

Yeah, it's been a dream of mine since I was an early teen. I'm quite behind in my training as I took the best part of a year off to do my house, but it took me 14hrs of instruction to go solo. I'm at 30 something hours now, and literally just back to where I was 12 months ago. Almost to the week, actually - I should have done the flight I'm planning for Sun this time last year.

Always a bit weird being up by yourself, but like I say, it's only the landing away that's new

Done did a crazy week (for eg: on Thursday one of my clients Whatsapp messaged me exactly 100 times as well as sending several emails and four phone calls plus some missed calls) and at the same time as all that we were having a bit of a bad one with the boy (he is Not A Sleeper, still) so  things are kinda fraught. But! My M-I-L is unexpectedly back in the UK and Tina has taken Dylan there for the night and I've gone out for some beers and tomorrow I can wake up late and my goodness I needed that. 
Got some debts to pay by Saturday evening but I think it'll be OK.

Stephen wanted a Mr. Freeze cake for his birthday, so a Mr. Freeze cake he got:

 

That is bloody awesome!

Cheers! It turned out better than I thought. I wanted to make a freeze gun out of marshmallows, but couldn't find any cocktail sticks to bind them all together.

:D

My attempts at cake really show the limits of my artistic ability :(

Its Friday again! Woot. Also, it stopped snowing and is supposed to be warm and sunny tomorrow. Which is good because I'm getting bored with Fallout 4.  Time to go outside!  

There's an outside in Fallout 4 too, and it doesn't have snow there.

And the radiation give your cheeks such a nice glow.

Yeah, I tried explaining that to the police but they're real grumpy buggers at times. :(

Oof, still snowing? Do you get anything resembling a summer there?

Oh sure. A bit of an anomaly. Its supposed to be about 14C tomorrow. Crazy weather.