While spending much time in bed or otherwise resting during my cold this past week, I took someone's suggestion to search YouTube for videos of people taking flying lessons, flying Cessnas and Pipers in and out of the L.A. airports I learned at, and whatnot. In so doing, I renewed acquaintance with tons of stuff I'd forgotten, and almost began to feel like I was back into it myself. What great fun, seeing the goings on at Van Nuys and the other local airports, and getting cockpit-view videos of landings on top of Catalina Island which I can tell you from experience is quite the hair-raising thrill. YouTube is such an incredible resource for so many things. Being able to make contact with part of one's past life in this way is: priceless.