CHAOS in the House!!

The Face of Chaos!

So, on Saturday Ryan and I went out, and yes, I found a cat! I figure if I can't be married right now I still need some form of companionship! His name was Chaos, and since I can't think of a name cooler than that, I've decided to let him keep it. After talking to Cindy she said he had to have a middle name, so I think I'll call him Chaos Mayhem 'lolcat' Quinlan. Lolcat is the nickname Ryan gave him.

The funny thing about his name is that Chaos is about the most chill cat I have ever seen. This picture below is of him just chilling out on the floor boards of the car on the way home. He didn't care about wandering around exploring, nor did it bother him to be in the car, he just enjoyed his little cubby hole!

Here's me and my new boy chaos soon after getting him home.

The first night here Chaos decided he liked the middle of my bed for sleeping. By the time I woke up Sunday morning, he had crawled under the comforter and was curled up all nice and cozy against my legs. I left him there when I went to church and came back to find him in the exact same spot, still under the covers! That's where he's slept every night so far, and it's where I've found him every day when I get back into the house! He's about the laziest cat I've ever seen, and when he's not under my covers sleeping, he's on top of them meowing until either Ryan or I come by and pet him.

He's also really gentle I've found. When playing with him he'll bat with his paws a little, but he's never used his claws at all. He's given me a couple of bites as well when playing, but they're really light and come anywhere near breaking the skin. I don't know if he had some previous owners or not before I adopted him, but he definately knows how to play nice with those of us who have tearable skin! I found a couple of other cats who I looked at while at the humane society and they were not so nice! One clawed my arm when I picked him up, and another put a hole in my finger when I tried to withdraw my hand from the cage after petting him. I decided really quick they weren't for me! (bleeding tends to help me make up my mind on such matters)

Today we were back in the classroom during the morning for a lesson from an ILS instructor (the civilian agency our non-military instructor pilots (IPs) are from) and then went over to one of the hangars to get a tour of our training aircraft the mighty T-6A. It's a beautiful plane and I can't wait to start flying it!

The rest of the day was spent getting G-suits fitted and then doing a couple of hours of computer aided instruction (CAIs) where we basically do lessons on our own pace through a specialized interactive computer program. It's nice because I get to set my own pace, and after having read the same material the night before it really helps to solidify everything I'm going to need to remember. Tomorrow we will review the systems we learned today, and then cover teh communication and navigation systems in depth. I did the reading for both of those tonight (about 100 pages) and it's a lot of stuff! It's the kind of material that I really need to see the instruments themselves and just play around with them to really understand.