Practice Makes Perfect

Weather looks OK, airplane is available, and I'm thinking about flying to Berlin tomorrow. New territory for me in a Cessna-172, so I fired up the simulator and gave it a quick run through. Now we just have to see how things look tomorrow morning. If not Berlin, maybe somewhere in between.

My game computer has an Athlon64 3500+ with 2GB of RAM and runs Windows XP Professional 64, which does a great job of handling complex graphics that bog down the "older" 32-bit machines. The only problem is that none of the major internet security software suites (Symantec, McAfee, etc) make anti-virus software for this OS. I wasn't to thrilled to trust the machine to Avast at first, but I warmed to it when I realized it was the only real alternative. I am hoping that the release of Windows Vista will boost the demand for 64-bit security before this machine is obsolete. I built it nearly 18 months ago, and it still has a lot of power under the hood, but it is getting old in computer years.

Oh well, on to Tempelhof (can't wait to pay that landing fee!)