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It was a busy weekend, although I didn't seem to accomplish much. I towed on Saturday (I'm so far behind in logging it's not even funny), did some maintenance on Sunday, and put another 250 miles on the bike. I was going to change the oil, but CycleGear didn't have my oil filter (PH4967), and the Harley dealership wasn't open, so it'll have to wait until next week. I did wash the bike and wax the yellow bits. My boss has an iPod nano. It's so amazingly cute - anyone want to buy a used blue iPod Mini? Work is heading back to 'hectic' from 'boring'. I suppose it's just the way software development works - I've had these cycles for years. I always thought if I just managed time better they wouldn't happen, but I suspect that isn't true. What I'm reading: Monstrous Regiment, Terry Pratchett. Well, actually, I'm listening to it, because I finally have an Audible.com subscription. In paper form, I'm finishing up Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books. I've been working on this for a long time, and it's a bit slow-going, but it's a good story, so I keep coming back to it (although I did take a break to read Lolita, which I'd never read). I just finished Sunday's Silence again. And the book in the bathroom is the original Vagina Monologues. BTW - I'd love someone to swap books with. I'll send you a stack of stuff I've read in return for a stack of stuff you're done with. What I'm listening to: Still working on the stack of music I scarfed from Dylan. The iPod says I only have 341 more songs that I've never listened to. Girls & Boys (Blur) is my current favorite - I'll probably get their "Best Of" album from iTunes. It really, really annoys me that I have to have iTunes installed to search the music store. Tags: airplane maintenance, books, motorcycle, music, randomness
Current Mood:  busy
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I haven't had much to say lately. Dylan went home. My futon looks empty without him. I got my last 3 crowns put on yesterday. That's the end of 10 years of deferred maintenance. I'm going to try to find some soup for lunch. Scheduled an Angel Flight for the 28th. I'm waiting to hear back from my co-pilot to see if we're going to take the whole trip (Kingman, KS) to Houston, or just the second half (from Ardmore, OK). I'm finally caught up on sleep - I slept 23 of the last 48 hours. It's time for my annual inspection on the Tripacer. I washed her last weekend in preparation and did the compression check. My low cylinder was a 73/80, which is really great and means I don't need a new cylinder this year. 40 hours of flying in the last 3 weeks helped a lot. I'm planning to spend the whole weekend working on the airplane. I need a life. :) Tags: airplane maintenance, randomness, tripacer
Current Mood:  sore
Current Music: Without You - Jimmy Vaughan
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Okay, I need girl-type advice. My hair is going gray. Not bad, yet, just starting to streak, but I'd rather it not. It's long, halfway down my back, and straight. In the summer, it sort of fades to a reddish-brown. I really like that color, and if I'm going to color it, that's the color I want. I've done the "invite a friend and color your hair" thing before, and I've never been very happy with it. The color never comes out the color I want, it's hard to maintain, and it usually looks like a murder has happened in my bathroom when we're done. So I'm thinking of going to a salon to have it done. Now, I'm a Supercuts sort of girl. I'm not sure if going to a Supercuts/TGIF place is really an improvement over doing it in my bathroom. But I don't have a stylist I really like to go to either, and it seems like picking one out of a phone book isn't a good idea. And, if I do go to a salon, how do I express what color I want? Bring a picture? And what if it turns out entirely wrong - does that just happen, and do I have to wait the year it will take to grow all out before I try again? Oh, yes, and the ends are still red from the attempt nearly 18 months ago - is that a problem? How often do I have to go get it done to keep it looking decent? I'm so bad at this being-a-girl stuff. help? please? Tags: randomness
Current Mood:  confused
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...I'm going to scream. Last night, when I got home, I couldn't find my pilot logbook. It was nowhere. I called Michael, and he looked around his apartment and around the hanger, and it wasn't there. It wasn't in my car, it wasn't in my apartment, and I knew it wasn't at my office. And I had to have it for my checkride tomorrow. I found it. When I returned the stack of DVDs to Blockbuster, it was in the stack of DVDs, and it's black and roughly the size of a DVD case, so it went in the slot with the DVDs. At 10pm last night, I finally called them, and sure enough, they had it, so I drove over and picked it up. Then I realized my written test results are also nowhere to be found, and I also have to have those for tomorrow. A call to the FAA got me the exam ID, letting me pull a copy out of the FAA system, but it's not an official copy, so I'm not sure he's going to accept it. I got in to work this morning to discover that someone had found a bug in the product we're supposed to ship today, and I've spent all day tracking it down and rebuilding things. An hour ago, someone else found a different bug that turned out to be "user installed wrong version", but still required me to figure that out. On top of all that, I realized yesterday that when I'd reformatted the machine that became backups.tripacerdriver.com, I forgot to backup my Quicken data, so I'd lost all my scheduled payments, including the name/address of the guy I send my hangar rent check to every month. After a half-dozen phone calls, I got his name and address from my bank. And I still have to finish my cross-country planning for tomorrow. I simply cannot handle any more crisises today. Tags: randomness
Current Mood:  stressed
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