So a few weeks ago I picked up a Parkzone Vapor remote control airplane because I had a few bucks lying around and I’ve always wanted to have one. I’d spent a fair amount of time on the simulator so I was pretty sure I was ready for flying. My first 30+ flights went well, but not this one.

You can’t really see it very well, but that’s my plane well above the street lamps. The little tiny glowing red dot in the top left of the photo. I wanted to climb the tree, but that just wasn’t going to be realistic, so all that was left to do was throw things at it until I could get it down.

After about 30 or os tosses I connected with one of the branch chunks I was throwing… More than I wanted to. When it came down, I was lucky that all I had knocked off was the rudder, so my total damage was about $20. The lesson I learned was “don’t fly above the fog in the middle of the night near a big tree”… It may not be applicable to other areas of my life, but at least this won’t happen again.