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Getting old isn’t really so bad, is it?

Sure a few more lines and sags stare back at you every morning in the mirror, but the upside to aging is wisdom.

Jetwhine’s 7th birthday is just around the corner and I like to think Scott Spangler and I are a lot wiser than in 2006 when Jetwhine’s first story ran. Heck, in dog years we’re almost 50.

I figure we must be smarter to have survived an onslaught of social media competitors that surfaced and also died over the past seven years. Of course a few of those forums really are, in Bill and Ted’s own words, “Most excellent,” and opened our eyes to viewpoints we’ve come to respect.

We bloggers till around can’t help but notice that time marching on can sometimes make us a bit too cozy with the way we’ve always conducted business, perhaps no longer stretching that envelope like in 2006 when we published a piece about the value of a blog for the aviation industry, or the piece on the value of a union for air traffic controllers. Of course there was that fun piece on the Top 10 reasons the Northwest Airlines pilots flew past MSP on arrival. Bet they never lived that one down. How could I forget Scott’s story about our industry getting the flight instructors it deserves. That one grabbed over a hundred comments. [Read more…] about Happy Birthday Jetwhine

A college professor of mine told me a story years ago — OK … MANY years ago — about how solving one problem often creates another. Boy … did our switch from Feedburner to Mail Chimp subscriber software — not to mention my recent post about the change — gum up the subscriber works over here at Jetwhine HQ.

First let me apologize to all of you who tried to resubscribe in various attempts and were faced with our monkey screwing things up. It really wasn’t supposed to be this much work.

Our mail monkey has since been sent to his room without bananas to reconsider his behavior.

Seriously, our original goal was to be certain everyone from the old list made it on to the new one.

If you’d like to be sure where you stand and you’d rather not risk the wrath of the chimp, just send me an e-mail at rob@jetwhine.com and I’ll check the details of your subscription myself. In the subject line, just add the word subscription and we’ll do the rest.

On the bright side of this mess though Scott and I were both really impressed by the incredible number of e-mails we received telling us how important your Jetwhine subscription is to you and how much you like what we write about GA, biz av, FAA, flight training and a host of other relevant issues.

And because you, our subscribers are just as important to us, please keep that rob@jetwhine.com address handy and e-mail me directly if our chimp ever again fails to treat you with the respect you deserve.

Thanks,

Rob Mark, publisher