Bedtime is rapidly approaching, so this may be rather abbreviated… Much to my disappointment, I didn’t fly on Friday, and still haven’t flown. The weather on Friday wasn’t very conducive to flying. I did end up preflighting a plane…. in the rain. Eventually the rain stopped, and it looked like we were going to go. But after getting a weather briefing, my instructor decided against it. It was fine directly above the field, but we were surrounded by convective activity and towing cumulus clouds, with lightning reported to the north. The wind was gusty and fluctuating wildly in direction. Several…
We bought a bike for Berck yesterday, and today he practiced his trip to the flight school. He’ll have to bike because I’ll have the car at work in OK City. It took him an hour to get there and back, which isn’t bad at all (of course, there was hardly any traffic on an Easter afternoon). It took him 35 minutes to get there and 25 to get back (there’s a big hill he has to climb on the way there). He’s busy reading his pilot text books this evening. I’ve been busy making shelves. I sanded and stained…
Berck and I are now the proud “parents” of a new gerbil. It happened like this… I was heading out the door to a job interview when I noticed a black and white cat crouched by the tire of the car parked next to the Miata. I recognized the cat; I often see him roaming the parking lots of our apartment complex. In fact, one evening when we had our door wide open to let the evening breeze in, I looked up to the see the cat all the way through the doorway, poking his nose around to see who…
Joanna says she hasn’t journaled much lately because I’ve been keeping her too busy. She’s been looking for a job, and when she’s not doing that, she’s shelving books, something that’s a bit more time consuming this time… We decided to organize all our books according to the Library of Congress system for several reasons. While we can do okay without a “real” classification system right now, it will eventually become impossible to find anything and it’s much easier to start now than later. The library of congress catalog is fully searchable online, although the classification schedules are only available…
Well, here we are in Norman, Oklahoma. We signed the lease on Monday night and moved everything in. We’ve spent the week putting up shelves and unloading boxes onto them, trying to squeeze all our stuff into a one-bedroom. Arthur, our ’62 Ford truck made it as far as Tyler, Texas. Then we had to rent a U-Haul truck to pull him the rest of the way to Norman. Looks like we’ll have to rebuild the engine to make him useful again. My sister Stephanie had her baby! Ian Nathaniel Bailey was born at 11:11 a.m., April 1, 7 lb,…