Here's to August

Started the new month at work today.

Was notified yesterday of an assignment for today - Ready Reserve.

Made it into the lounge this morning at 9:30, checked-in and noticed they didn't have anything for me. Fine by me. I opened up the laptop and surfed the web for a little while. Eventually turned the machine off and started to take a little nap at about 10:15. Set the alarm for 10:45 so that if they did call me and I just so happened to fall asleep - well at lest I'd wake up hopefully within our contractually obligated time and not get written up for such a ridiculous thing.

Just as I'm dosing off the phone rings the distinctive Crew Scheduling ringer. The time as 10:30. They had an assignment - a trip up to KPIA (Peoria, IL), that leaves at 10:43am. Spectacular - 13 minutes to get to the plan, set my self up, do any necessary paperwork, and shut the door. Surprisingly we managed to close the door only 1 minute behind schedule, and would have had it shut if ti wasn't for a maintenance mechanic who decided to give us a little visit with 1 minute to door close and who also decided to linger for a few moments; hence our inability to get out on time.

Flew up to Peoria, did a 25 minute turn, and am now back in Atlanta. Once we got back in I called Crew Scheduling back, I still had 2 and a half hours of my initial ready reserve period to go so I knew they weren't going to send me home but I had to notify them that I was back in the airport.

Anyway - I'm on my way to grab some lunch, not even 10 minutes after talking to a scheduler - and they call me. Ends up they have me going to KXNA (Northwest Arkansas Regional) but not until 6:45pm. Spectacular . . .

So here I am, enjoying another 2 hours and some change before I'm out of here and on my way to XNA. Have a 10 hour overnight there, and then back in again in the morning. Get to call them in the morning and hopefully they'll either have something for me right then - or they'll send me home for the day, only to still have to babysit the phone until my reserve period tomorrow ends.

They can keep me for another hour tomorrow once I make it in though if they don't necessarily have something for me by the time I get back into Atlanta. Only time will tell - and I wouldn't necessarily be too disappointed.