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Where do I start about today?
Is it appropriate to go back to my earliest recollections where, as a child I looked on in fascination at the aircraft operating overhead? Do I describe in infinite and painful (to others) detail how my passion for flying though experiencing phases where it was all but repressed has brought me to typing this entry?
No.
What has happened to me today is so much more. Today was at once a culmination of a life time’s worth of dreaming and near empty wanting and at the same time my first completed steps into a whole new world of experience and opportunity.
You see ladies and gents today I earned the right to wear my first set of pilot’s wings. At this point words fail me in an attempt to describe what exactly is going through my mind. I have survived spinning, I have conquered fears and I am learning to master myself. And again today was so much more than that.
What does one say in a situation like this?
I really can’t explain to you why I feel vindicated at receiving my wings. It’s not as if that only now that I have them I can fly. It’s not as if they make me in any was superior to normal people.
So what is it??
I think, it is because now that I have my wings I can say to myself,
“Well done. You did it.”
And at the end of the day it’s the best thing in the world.
Damian’s wings
A short entry today. I’d like to share how my afternoon turned out:
The book store that I work at (part time) is in the front of what was once a larger store, our sub-division was done with chipboard walls. At 12 today my friend who’s a manager there heard a cat meowing on the other side of the office wall and informed centre management that there might be something stuck in the disused section…
Fast forward to 16h00. I step out of the store to get some fresh air and decided to peep through the windows to see if they got the cat out. Turns out they did SFA and I could see a kitten in there. Grabbed one of the security guards (“locals”) then got another and another. After I had gone through 4 of these rather useless chaps (now 40 minutes after I saw the kitten) and then getting asked by their controller via radio what padlock was used on the door as they couldn’t find the keys I managed to “affect” an entry….
Now I’m inside but it’s nearly pitch black, ask the security guard if he has a torch. NO. Useless honestly. I managed to get a headlamp from Cape Union mart (an outdoors supplier) and after moving heaps of stored metal tables and running around I, with the help of my buddy, caught our little friend. I estimate that she was trapped there between 24 and 48 hours. She was scared witless but is a perfectly healthy 10 to 15 month old tortoise shell kitten with white, orange and grey markings.
My buddy’s family had decided to adopt her which makes me exceptionally happy as she won’t have to go through the whole adoption thing! She was last seen tucked into a blanket for the evening…
Now as soon as I have a pic of her I’ll post a pic of Penny 
‘Twas a good way to spend the last hour of my time at work…
