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A quick and short overview of 2012

Usually i do a full year by year talk about things that happened in my life in 2012

 

February

8th-I Fall on the Ice. Sent to hospital and am released later in the afternoon. Thanks to the helmet which i dont have worry about replacing and it saved my head.

May

2nd to the 4th-spent in montreal during dads conference. Took our time getting there and took our time coming home.

Summer

More Airshows and i met mikey mcbrian at the CWH’s 40th Anniversary Airshow.

 

Fall

Just as simmilar to the summers and years before…

the emails that got me famous on interrobang

Hello my name is darren elliott and i am 28, am finishing fanshawe and was emailed on Better The World about someone wanting to interview me about this website called "bettertheworld.com" her name was kristen. She mentioned that if i was avialible i would do a phone call interview which would be ok but i am busy with school work and studying maybe theres an alternative way to approach it, maybe i could drop by tomorrow or next week sometime and do an actual interview. Would that work?? (better use of 3 hours in between classes)
She didnt mention who it was that was going to do the actual interview so i thought id email the writer directly because that may be who does it.
What building is the interrobang out of. I know its based on the FSU so it must be in the SUB building i guess.
this is what she posted on bettertheworld.com


"Hi Darren! This is Kristen from Better The World - thanks for supporting us! A reporter from the Fanshawe newspaper is going to do an article on Better The World and was hoping to speak to a Fanshawe student and get their opinion. Is there any chance you would be open to speaking with her? It would probably just be a quick phone call. If you are interested we would appreciate it! Thanks! Kristen"
Oct 07/09
maybe you know her or know what this is about...
Talk to you soon
Darren Elliott
ps can you pass this on to whoever was interested in knowing more about this, thank you

Have a nice day.
____________________________________________________

What can i say, what a wonderful way to find out how you can change the world by surfing on the inter net, cool huh?.

I found out about better the world at an IT conference in Stratford Ontario, as i am from that area. I thought that this kind of caring for causes was a nice way to go about things. I find that the website is easy to look at and works well with the other stuff that you are interested in and all the causes you support.

There is a school related contest going on for most of ontario i believe and Fanshawe is #14 at the moment. It would be nice to see us being near the top. Lets go Fanshawe lets get some more members (ivanna this would be good for the paper) and get more going on with this website.

This site also works with Facebook, Twitter, Youtube. in getting your word out there in order to change the world. Just sign up today and get started in changing the world. I can all be done with a click.

Thanks

Darren Elliott

(GAS) student

should i have even moved to banff

even though this aint no regular break up, and i should be fully moved on so far. It aint doing anything for my heart. Though my head may have left thinking about her mot of the time, my heart still wishes and longs for this girl who i met some 6 and a half years ago.

I dont know why im on this long road that leads nowhere and i cant seem to get any closure from this i really want to know why she ignored me so then movidng on process wouldnt be so hard and i could actualy move on and find someone to fill that hole/

i really didnt want to end up hating her and wishing and in the end losing her but there we go again just pissing of another girl so that they will never want to see me agian. Isnt that great!! i feel as if im in a re-run of "cant hardly wait"

Por the previous post i can tell that she wants nothing to do with me anmore and thats great, even better but then i start thinking about her again and like ive said before its like im on some jeykll/hyde run and im not really liking it.

The key to fixing this is CLOSURE and when i will probably get it will be 2040 or so...

so im screwed till then!!!

So how's this?

I'm checking the photos just posted to the instagram site and a photo shows up from Ryan belder with les flames of fire and low and behold willow Boyd's instagram account is up, I need to talk things over or it's over

Darren Elliott
Jet Aircraft Museum
Volunteer/Member
jetaircraftmuseum.ca

Thinking about this girl I met out west

Sorry about the delay on this but I've been thinking about this girl I met out west a lot, she really shook my heart and broke it as well. I do t want to dwell on the past too much but this girl is so wonderfull and she's my dream girl, my horoscopes are saying soming about a girl from a recent past and so maybe she still likes me I dunno... Anyways time to update the blog at least... they are still skiing out west so maybe it's time to go skiing out west

very warm outside

its not even the beginning of april and were only in the 1st half of march and the temperatures are up into the double digits, tomorrow is going to be plus 20 degrees ferenheit. Its so very odd that its more like summer and we havent even hit march 21at which is the first day of spring!!

thats all!!

Some Canadian geese

Darren Elliott

Jet Aircraft Museum

Volunteer/Member

jetaircraftmuseum.ca

So I fell and almost broke my back

I'm so glad that I didn't break my back but I'm in a lot of pain...

Brian doing yard work

It's been a weird winter...

The last few winters have been pretty normal with snow on author ground through out the winter but this is just one of those years where the winter is only around on the weekend and this week is supposed to go back to +5 degrees so we will see what happens this weekend coming up and if it snows again...

Brought the iPad over to the hill so I can blog, chat and check things out...I'll test sendings photo to the blog later...

Enjoy

Darren Elliott
Jet Aircraft Museum
Volunteer/Member
jetaircraftmuseum.ca

Outside right now

The month so far

Sofar were fighting a war to hope that it stays cold and they can keep making snow over at the ski hill I work at but then mother nature fights back and the sun comes out and were back to square one. Right now a lot of snow has melted after a few days of cold and a day or so full of snowfall. I'm looking out my window and it's bare out there we had about 3 or 4cm of snow and then now it's melting...last night we got tons of rain so that melts the snow... Anyways life is ok, for now...I just wanted to update everyone for this week...I'll update you soon... Bye

review of 2011

January

-same as any january

 

february

lessons and school groups at the hill(hard at work)

 

March

nothing big and or new

 

April

 

17th-Birthday, in the afternoon my mom and wally and anne went to the katana kafe and had lunch to celebrate my b-day (weather was foggy)

 

May

 

5-6th Hamilton Av Expo first airshow or expo of the season

27-CWH airshow firt real propper outdoor airshow 

 

June

 

24-26 GLIAS, probably the best airshow of the year...

 

July

nothing big

 

August

20th and 21st-KW  airshow.

 

Was probably the last airshow of the season

 

September

 

unknown date, we had our 3rd successful doors open/open house thing...we had 3 flights with members who paid in full for a half hour flight...

I had my old camera there and took some shots but at the time had no long lens  

 

24th-Tillsonburg CHAA wings and wheels

met steve and paul at the airport at 9am and set up the booth, was pretty simple and straight forward, we were there to sell calendars and pass out pamphlets etc. I met eric dumigan (airic.ca) and finally met kevin moore at the show as well. I tried out eric dumigans camera and tried to take osme shots with my old camera which I had found a longer lens at that point in time

 

October to December

same old same old

 

thanks for reading

 

 

 

Darren Elliott
Jet Aircraft Museum
Volunteer/Member

Happy holidays from the Elliott's

not much new

just thought I would check in on things even though I know there is not much going on....

 

loving being with buffalo again and heres some shots

 

have a great day!!

 

 

 

Darren Elliott
Jet Aircraft Museum
Volunteer/Member

back with buffalo virtual

well for the past few weeks now i have been back with buffalo virtual, enjoying the time while im back there. Been doing a few online flights with them..

anyways i cant sleep so im up posting this

blogging again

its been two months since I've blogged and to say the least I'm sorry, ill try to keep more up to date as much as I can..

 

 

things are wrapping up with the aishow season, so for most of what I've done for JAM is done unless we get into some malls to put the photoship  or whatever. I wont give out much info but yesterday we had a great fundraising meeting. We chatted about other things we could do about the calendar sales and stuff. Like I sadi I wont discuss the specifics but after the meeting we all wanted to get some pizza or something. But we decided to go to the Katana Kafe after and it turned out to be quite a nice time to chat with the other members about other things going on.

 

anyways Ill talk to you all soon!!

 

 

Darren Elliott
Jet Aircraft Museum
Volunteer/Member

what other person..

"Ah, emotions. Can't live without 'em, but sometimes, like on the 1st and 2nd, you might wish you could. Well, instead of trying to wish your emotions away as the month begins, do your best to be glad you have them, even if they're a little bit difficult sometimes. After all, they are a sign of health. Not only that, but they are very helpful guides as you navigate this thing called 'life.' Difficulties point you to the places where you might need to do some extra work, or make some changes, or let yourself be yourself more completely. By the highly ambitious 6th and 7th, you're in overdrive. You know what you want and by golly, you are going to get it. Great! Just don't forget to keep working out, while you're go-getting, particularly on the tricky 10th, 11th and 12th. You're a star, the super-shiny 13th and 14th. So sparkle! If you have family (or urban family) obligations on the 20th, 21st or 22nd, fulfill them. It'll be fun. Take your time on the 27th and 28th. After all, you need to focus on the other person. Wrap up the month with more emotions on the 30th. How does that feel?"

 

um...there is no other person at the moment...what do they mean

 

 

Darren Elliott
Jet Aircraft Museum
Volunteer/Member

Its Taken 3 years to make it to this

This photo posted below, taken in 2009 was supposed to be the arrival of two more t-33’s to london. This is where being with the jet aircraft museum began. As tomorrow begins a new day and we start up 346 for an official flight. All the work thats been done with these aircraft id like to thank all the guys in the Jet aircraft museum maintenance division of JAM a big thanks for all your work.

 

Most of all the big things that have happened at Jam was in the  year 2009. Thats when 90% of the aircraft had been flown in. There were times of joy there were times of sadness. Before i took this photo i had been hanging aorund with these guys waiting for two aircraft to leave CPZ3 Mountainview, Ontario and fly to london, they had a short window of a few hours before the clouds moved in or soemthing and they tried and tried but the fix took longer than they thought and so we had to go or leave or whatever. I was finishing off my college degree at the time and the JAM building was where these guys are all standing. Every afternoon when i was done my classes id go to the airport and wouldnt be back untill after 8 or 9 pm as i watched katanas and cessnas and twin pipers.

In 2009 at the 1st Doors open i met the current (at the time)London Mayor, Anne Marie Decicco best. This was our official grand opening. I was there early with dad to help set up and to get things ready before dawning the reflective vest to go work the parking lot. I actually guided Mrs Best to where she should park. I would have thought shed have the biggest security force and haver her own bus or limo or other ways of transportation but she didnt and she came with her 1990’s Pontiac Grand Am type car. Anyways I also met the President of the CYXU Airport as he was there to cut the ribbon. Like i said it was the  first offical grand opening and all the ones since then have been there to get more word out/referrals etc to other people that we are there.

We had a few aircraft visitors who came to have a burger and a break in their schedules. 3 Harvards from CHAA in tilsonburg flew in. We had a ryan navion piainted up like a luftwaffe FW-190 (C-FWOL). We also had two russian jets an L-39 #69 and an L-29. It was a fun day…

 

hope tomorrow is as better as that one was