[Pasteboard buffer for http://free-is-not-free.blogspot.com/2016/08/economics-101-novel-ch09-in-islands.html. Original would be at http://free-is-not-free.blogspot.com/2016/08/pasteboard-departure.html, if published.]
Our co-protagonists and their parents met with
Professor MacVittie and other university personnel to make sure all the
necessary preparations were complete. Then they said goodbye to their
parents, and left campus for the airport with Professor and Sister
MacVittie and their youngest son.
Their flight took off without incident, and they made a connecting flight or two to the coast. (I am not saying which coast.)
From the coast, they had several more connecting flights. Not much happened, but Bobbie noticed two things on route.
At the coast, she said, "Karel, have you noticed the guys hitting on me?"
"I've noticed a few doing double-takes."
"Double-takes don't really bother me."
"I have noticed a few guys deliberately ignoring me and the professor and trying to get your attention."
"That's what I'm talking about."
"How should I react?"
"I don't particular want attention from the kind of guy that would do that."
"I can run interference?"
"I'd appreciate it, if things get out of hand."
"Should we ask the professor and Sister MacVittie to help?"
"That would be too unnatural."
"Pardon me for listening in, Bobbie, but Brother MacVittie and I will be happy to help."
"I'll say something if anything goes that far."
What
she didn't say was that she was noticing that she seemed to be able to
turn most of the probing looks away with hardly any overt reaction at
all. It felt good.
At one layover, they were seated at
an airport concessions cafeteria. Karel and Bobbie were sitting
together, and the MacVitties were at a neighboring table.
Karel had gone to the counter to pick up their food.
A rugged looking fellow sat down across from Bobbie.
"Hello beautiful."
"Do you make a habit of talking to yourself?"
The
man reached out and caught Bobbie by the wrist. She moved her arm in a
way that only a dancer would know and the man's hand closed on air.
The MacVitties were watching without watching. Their son stood up and went to the counter where Karel was picking up the food.
Karel was also watching out of the corner of his eye.
"Nice moves."
"The seat you are sitting in wasn't really open."
The MacVittie's son said, "I'll get the food."
"Thanks. I think I'd better go rescue that guy." Karel said, loud enough for the man to hear.
"Some girls know what they want. I think you are a little confused."
"I think not."
"That runt you were with isn't worth the trouble he's caused you."
"Far more than the trouble he's caused me, not that it's any of your business."
This time the man reached with both hands and was too quick. Bobbie was cool as ice.
Karel, standing behind the man, said, "So, Should I do the honors, or should I leave him to you?"
Bobbie smoothly extracted her wrists and slapped the man. and said, "I
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Sheldon MacVittie
Dean Hayworth
Professor White
Bobbie has two younger brothers, Rick (and Lupe) and Gary.
Karel has sisters, Charlotte, Sheryl
Bobbie's part time job
Dan's little sister, Sheliah, older sister Deborah, brother Timothy
5, 6, 7, 8, 9
ch. 9
sixth semester/fieldwork
Starting the fieldwork with the MacVitties
Before leaving for islands:
acknowledging mutual interest
reasons for postponing
at main island (is main island first?)
Wye and Zed and their charter service
the four islands
Hanaka and father on first island
In the days before returning,
(pushing luggage on cart!)
some sort of strong commitment,
hesitation to be demonstrative around islanders --
don't want to be misunderstood
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Tuesday, August 16, 2016
Thursday, August 11, 2016
[Backup] Economics 101 pasteboard flight
[This is material that didn't make it into Getting through Winter in the Second Year: http://free-is-not-free.blogspot.com/2016/08/economics-101-novel-ch07-pt2-getting.html, (produced during the work backed up here: http://joel-rees-economics.blogspot.jp/2016/08/bk-economics-101-novel-ch07-pt2-getting.html. Originally at http://free-is-not-free.blogspot.com/2016/08/pasteboard-flight.html, which was never published.)]
Then Bobbie said, "Say guys, I have something I need a little help with."
Karel said, "We're all ears."
"I told you guys I have a pilot's certificate, didn't I?"
"Huh?"
"Oh, yeah."
"So what's up?"
"It's been a while since I've flown, and I need a little time in the air."
Dan suggested, "How about flying us all down to St. George and taking a hike in Zion's Canyon?"
"That's kind of what I was thinking."
"I'm in."
"Count me in, too."
"How do we get from the park to the Canyon?"
"Karel, you are such a wet blanket."
"If you have friends with big farms, you don't have to put down in the public airport."
"Cool!"
"Now how am I supposed to do the wet blanket thing about that?"
And they all laughed, quietly, so as not to disturb other students.
"When ya got in mind?"
"This weekend?"
"What about studying for the tests?"
"We can study in the air."
"If you guys spell my at the controls, I can do some studying, too."
"How does that work out as practice?"
"What I need most is getting in the air and getting back down. The rest is mostly practice staying awake, and keeping an eye on the weather and the instruments, which I can do while I study."
"Well let's get as much study as we can out of the way. "
Early Saturday morning at the airport, Bobbie's little brother Rick flew in with his wife, Lupe. Bobbie and Rick checked the plane out while the others watched, and Rick got started fueling it.
Bobbie showed the other three how to read the weather forecast for the prevailing winds and set up the flight plan. Just for fun, Karel showed them how to use calculus instead of the flight computer. But they all agreed that took too long.
You are thinking that a flight computer is an anachronism. I know you are. So look up "E-6B flight computer" on your favorite search engine.
Oh, you knew about that already. Maybe I shouldn't pretend to know so much about airplanes, after all.
When they were finished with the flight plan, Bobbie and Rick took it to the airport office to file it.
Then she had her friends walk through the pre-flight checklist with her and explained the various procedures to them, to refresh her own memory.
And then they made a phone call to the friends who owned the land where they would be setting down, so they could have an idea when to expect them. And they boarded the plane with Bobbie at the controls and Rick in the co-pilot's seat, taxied out, got final clearance, and took off.
Karel, Dan, and Kristie each took a turn at the controls, with Rick coaching them, while the rest studied and watched the scenery below. They didn't get as much studying done as they might have, but they had fun with it.
Rick and Lupe got involved with their discussions of Lectures on Faith.
Lupe said, "Rick and I have been reading it, and I'm not sure it is very important any more."
Rick agreed. "It seems to me that the primary ideas in it that don't seem to be as clearly made somewhere else are faith as the power of God and the generality of the Abrahamic sacrifice."
Then Bobbie said, "Say guys, I have something I need a little help with."
Karel said, "We're all ears."
"I told you guys I have a pilot's certificate, didn't I?"
"Huh?"
"Oh, yeah."
"So what's up?"
"It's been a while since I've flown, and I need a little time in the air."
Dan suggested, "How about flying us all down to St. George and taking a hike in Zion's Canyon?"
"That's kind of what I was thinking."
"I'm in."
"Count me in, too."
"How do we get from the park to the Canyon?"
"Karel, you are such a wet blanket."
"If you have friends with big farms, you don't have to put down in the public airport."
"Cool!"
"Now how am I supposed to do the wet blanket thing about that?"
And they all laughed, quietly, so as not to disturb other students.
"When ya got in mind?"
"This weekend?"
"What about studying for the tests?"
"We can study in the air."
"If you guys spell my at the controls, I can do some studying, too."
"How does that work out as practice?"
"What I need most is getting in the air and getting back down. The rest is mostly practice staying awake, and keeping an eye on the weather and the instruments, which I can do while I study."
"Well let's get as much study as we can out of the way. "
Early Saturday morning at the airport, Bobbie's little brother Rick flew in with his wife, Lupe. Bobbie and Rick checked the plane out while the others watched, and Rick got started fueling it.
Bobbie showed the other three how to read the weather forecast for the prevailing winds and set up the flight plan. Just for fun, Karel showed them how to use calculus instead of the flight computer. But they all agreed that took too long.
You are thinking that a flight computer is an anachronism. I know you are. So look up "E-6B flight computer" on your favorite search engine.
Oh, you knew about that already. Maybe I shouldn't pretend to know so much about airplanes, after all.
When they were finished with the flight plan, Bobbie and Rick took it to the airport office to file it.
Then she had her friends walk through the pre-flight checklist with her and explained the various procedures to them, to refresh her own memory.
And then they made a phone call to the friends who owned the land where they would be setting down, so they could have an idea when to expect them. And they boarded the plane with Bobbie at the controls and Rick in the co-pilot's seat, taxied out, got final clearance, and took off.
Karel, Dan, and Kristie each took a turn at the controls, with Rick coaching them, while the rest studied and watched the scenery below. They didn't get as much studying done as they might have, but they had fun with it.
Rick and Lupe got involved with their discussions of Lectures on Faith.
Lupe said, "Rick and I have been reading it, and I'm not sure it is very important any more."
Rick agreed. "It seems to me that the primary ideas in it that don't seem to be as clearly made somewhere else are faith as the power of God and the generality of the Abrahamic sacrifice."
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