Final into JFK with instrumental music

The instrumental music in the background is by Peter White, a guitarist I saw in a free concert in San Francisco in 1993.  That concert changed my life, the previous day I had flown to my parents home after being away for eight weeks on a long business trip, the real launch of my career as a business systems trainer since my first attempt did not go so well, because I needed to brush up on accounting training.  I wanted to quit that job because my first business systems implementation with a cool friend named Max and his former Marine night auditor and my beautiful female colleague who was much like the woman I finally married I had to work 24x7 just to get the job done because I had heard previous implementations and trainings had gone wrong and our guarantor IBM was going to cancel our contract.  I flew home very sad because I felt I had blown it, but I saw Peter White and decided to do my second gig for IBM in Mesa Arizona.

When I got to Arizona, I checked my voicemail--we had to, in case our trips got cancelled which happened to me only once late on that contract when I flew to Vegas and back on the same day because of a client cancellation, to the surprise of my parents who I would always visit between business system training gigs.  The voicemail I received in Arizona made my spirits soar.  The head of IBM's hospitality division, a woman from India named Edaly who we called "Hello Dolly" in a nice way of kidding her, said I scored a knockout with the client and the client sang the praises of our company.  I had saved our company from losing our contract but I had helped from my employee there, who also flew to Arizona because she wanted to be with me a second time around.

We went on a date together, a platonic date, though she was a hugger and toucher which I liked, I like women and men who are gentle in that way.  I rented a car from my client and drove her to Metro Center, a mall that almost died but I now live nearby it, and it has been revived.  I saw the Mel Gibson movie "Man without a face" and both of us did not like it because it mocked teachers and suggested that teachers were child molesters.  We preferred "Kindergarten Cop" over "Man Without a Face", that movie was truer to what male and female teachers do to teach people of all ages.  My second business systems training was at a Holiday Inn in Mesa Arizona, which had a beautiful indoor/outdoor pool, I also have been to such a pool in Toledo Ohio at the Holiday Inn French Qtr, a New Orleans themed hotel which was my third gig after Mesa.  Because of my Mesa experience, I picked Phoenix to move to with my ex wife because I feel it is the best example of a racially mixed city in a divided country at times, it is a true sanctuary city, and that has nothing to do with politics, it has more to do with the mood that pushes our economy.  That is why I have no problem buying military or civilian add-ons for our hobby, past or present, whatever the nation, because it contributes to the economy of our hobby, and hobbies give us things to pursue in our leisure time, which can be less and less until we retire like I had to, ten years early, due to cancer.

Back to Peter White, I subsequently paid to see him a few times in concert and have purchased many of his albums, this song is from his album "Smile" but there is no best Peter White album, they are all great.  For those who were raised and graduated from high school in the 70's, like I did, Peter White goes all the way back to playing the keys and guitar on Al Stewart's "Year of the Cat" album, arguably one of the most poetic albums of all time, and one of the coolest voices to listen to back then.  However I am still a fan of Led Zeppelin's "Song Remains the Same" album and their live rendition of "Stairway to Heaven", where Robert Plant begins the song with the message "This is a song of hope".   I get euphoria every time I listen to that song simply because it respects heaven--i.e. our forebears, which we have many of. 

That is why I joke that I believe in the right to arm bears, because if you love your forebears and they have passed, you know your love has helped them find peace, regardless of your personal creed or background.  We are all special and equally different which is why I like to joke about Avsim and call it "Av-Sin" because we spend so much time enjoying our sin here, tongue in cheek, sin is just my acronym for "Satisfaction in Need"  My response to the Rolling Stones cool song with a double negative "I can't get no satisfaction" which actually means the opposite because we grammar geeks know about double negatives.  That is why Pink Floyd had an inside joke on their album "The Wall"-- "We don't need no education, we don't need no thought control"    They meant the opposite, for me it just means--chill dude, calm down, and enjoy the good and bad comments you hear at avsim, and accept that as your mantra or whatever.... 

Enough for the back story...  The Flysimware Falcon F50 rocks and can nail landings quite well, she flies so well, even when I take pain meds, lol...

John