My last flight was 8/25/2001. I had just completed my 43rd hour of training towards my private. Weather in the Seattle area had been bad that summer and I couldn't get up again. After 9/11, Boeing decided to lay off 30,000 people. Afraid I might be one of them, I stopped flying to save money, thinking I'd get back to it if things worked out. Because of the layoffs, engineering groups got consolidated. My group moved north in the summer of 2002 and a year of commuting made us move in 2003. The new mortgage was higher and here I sit. I might get back into the air next year, but I said that last year too.