Text Box: Merry Christmas ’05. It has been a couple of years since I sent out Christmas Cards. 2 years ago this time, I finally made it to my last continent, Antarctica. I found a Russian icebreaking ship that was converted to take 100 passengers on a 10 day trip from Ushuaia on the southern tip of Argentina to the Antarctic Peninsula for 6 days. What an incredible trip. I’ve continued to run the Tybee Marathon in Savannah the last couple of years, that makes a total of 4 marathons for me now. I tried another Iron Man the year after my first attempt, which I told you about in the last Christmas ’03 letter. Still did not complete it!! I’ve got to learn how to swim. In Feb of 2004, I got my pick of the litter of 11 golden retrievers that were 6 weeks old at a breeder near Dublin GA. I’ve had a lot of fun with Buddy. He loves to go running with me. We had a route on the Islands that we regularly ran from home on Sundays in Savannah that was about 6 miles. Up to the current year: New Years of ’05 started at the end of the Alpha Phi Omega National Convention in Denver. Always a great time, like a reunion, getting to see all of my fraternity friends every two years. I am continuing my involvement with the Fraternity as the National Extension Sub-Committee Chair for the country, helping to start chapters. I started the year out working at Gulfstream Aerospace in Savannah GA on the GIV-X. I am still a Flight Test Instrumentation Engineer, mostly involved in mechanical designs to test the aircraft with sensors. However, I did go on quite a few remote trips on the Electrical/Operations side of testing. One of those interesting trips this year was to Fairbanks AK in February. -40 degrees F with 30 mph winds for cold weather testing. Just happened that there was an effort to start a chapter of Alpha Phi Omega on the Fairbanks campus. So, that night I met with the student president of the group. It is always interesting to go to a town almost anywhere in the country and be able to meet up with people that are involved in APO. Come spring time in Savannah, I’ve now got 3-1/2 years at Gulfstream. They have a 4 year limit for contractors before they let them go. I had wanted to go work on the A380 in Toulouse, but I was not able to make the right contacts. I knew that Boeing was just starting on design of their new 787. I contacted a previous supervisor of mine from Boeing to see if they were hiring contractors in Flight Test, in which he said they were. So, the end of April, I resigned from Gulfstream and started preparing for my trip back across the country to Boeing in Seattle. Dad came out for a week and