Author: Brian Johnson

  • The upside of fevers

    The upside of fevers

    COVID = no joke Let me be clear: COVID has not been fun and I’m not making light of it in any way. The Mrs. was exhausted – hibernating under covers for most of the daylight hours. She got exhausted from even a short walk around the kitchen. Also, I know this illness hits people…

  • Welcoming 2024 with cautious optimism (and COVID)!

    Welcoming 2024 with cautious optimism (and COVID)!

    Why restart your blog? Nobody reads blogs anymore, right? Last year, after my wife’s Facebook account was hacked (and recovered – read about that here) we had two scary realizations: So this year, I wanted to publish some posts from my perspective and be able to easily download backups of everything just in case, God…

  • iFly – session 16

    Today was fun – and a little frightening. I would have been all set to start my level 2 skill set after testing out of level 1 last time I was at iFly, however I had booked today’s session in advance, the flying rules state that voucher time can be used for belly flying only.…

  • iFly – session 15

    As Napoleon Dynamite would say, “YUSSSSSSSSSSS!” I did it! I passed my level 1 set of flight skills! I’m sure I’ve already said this one or five times in the past, but this was my favorite set of flights so far. For the first time, I didn’t feel nervous or like I was setting out…