Working with Crew Support and landing in Arcata

So I saw a stand up in open time this morning and decided, what the hey...I'll call 'em up and give it a shot.

(A stand up is when you report late, report very early the next day and get off early. Usually it's only 2-4 legs of work and you get more pay than what it's actually worth. Your only away from base for about 12 hours. Open time are trips that crew support doesn't have coverage for).

I wasn't sure if they would give it to me, cause today is my day off and not tomorrow. I'm in luck! They moved my day off to Saturday and let me take the stand up. Yippee. This means I will report tonight at 8:20, work one leg to Arcata. Then get up early and 2 legs back and be off by 8:25 tomorrow morning. 6 hours of pay. Not to shabby! Plus having Saturday off means I'll get to see the girls soccer games! Oh yeah! I can do my job and be a soccer mom. I rock! hehe

Hmm...I wonder if we'll even get into Arcata tonight. Did I tell you about how we aborted landing in Arcata a couple weeks ago? Fog.
Yeah, the captain came on over the PA and said "well folks, as you can tell we weren't able to land. We are going to try it again. We actually did see the runway lights but then they went out and we had to take off again. Sorry. Hopefully we'll have ya on the ground soon."

Great. Left me wondering...if we don't land this time are we going to have enough fuel to make it back to SFO?? I just smiled and crossed my fingers.

Everyone clapped and cheered as our wheels slammed down HARD on the runway. Dang, that was THE HARDEST LANDING EVER!!! yet everyone was thrilled and thanked the captain for landing.