Vacation Warning
Attention readers!
Starting later today, I am on vacation. Blogging may slow dramatically or stop completely for a week.
Carolyn’s plane from Germany just landed at Newark (we pilots know where to look on the web to follow these things). I hope she was on it. 
Tonight we rest. Tomorrow it’s off to NYC. We’re staying at Intercontinental The Barclay New York for 2 nights. Sunday we go to the matinee of Spamalot. (Our first date was 20 years ago Monday to see Monty Python & the Holy Grail at Rutgers.) We’ll probably go Catholic for church – St. Patrick’s Cathedral is a few blocks from the hotel.
Monday we head home. No plans at all for the rest of the week. I might fly one day. Mostly both of us need the downtime so there might be lots of snoozing with cats.
See you in a week!
Vacation and topics
I will be on vacation next week.
This is not a “go somewhere and see the sights” vacation. My wife and I (and my entire family for that matter) tend to plan to do too much on a “go someplace” vacation. What I NEED right now is to relax – to plan one activity at day at most and sleep until my body says it’s had enough sleep.
But who are we kidding – I’ll be doing some stuff.
Monday I plan to go to Camp Johnsonburg and help out replacing light ballasts and fixtures to complete their conversion to lower energy lighting. They have to have it done by the end of the month to get the grant from the local utility and they still have a ways to go.
Later in the week I plan to go flying again, since my blood pressure is under control again and I can.
My wife needs to replace her 1996 Chrysler Concorde, and we’ll go car shopping next week. We’ll combine one trip with my need to get the oil changed in my Highlander Hybrid.
On Sunday, my church is holding a choir concert featuring works inspired by the Song of Solomon. THAT should be interesting.
I know that I owe you a few posts. One on Youth Sunday – if you can’t wait until I get that written you can go here to see pictures, or here to listen to the sermons (April 22, 2007). I also owe you a post on the opera Rigoletto by the Boheme Opera company in Trenton – that’ll get done soon.
I also want to write something about the loss of church members when they graduate from high school and drop out of church during or after college. It hasn’t gelled yet, so I’ll be writing that when the spirit strikes.
I’ll be back at work on the 14th.
OK, that’s out of my system
Please excuse the negative posts from the last few days. One of my hot buttons got pushed, and I lashed out a bit.
If I’ve upset or offended you, I’m sorry and please let me know.
I intend to start blogging happier things now.
My Schedule
Blogging may be light for a week or two.
I work tomorrow and Friday. Tomorrow my boss is taking us out to lunch. Friday is the company lunch. I hope to be allowed to leave early one or both days.
After that I’m on vacation until January 2. I hope to fly one more time with my instructor sometime between Saturday (not likely – bad weather) and January 1. There’s a TINY chance that I could get my instrument checkride in during that time.
While I’m not going anywhere for more than a day, I probably won’t be online as much.
Comments
E-mail from my last post seems to indicate that TypeKey is hindering folks from commenting. Today begins a new experience to see if not requiring TypeKey will work.
If spam gets too bad, I’ll have to turn TypeKey back on again.
NOTE: This post comes from an older incarnation of my blog. TypeKey does not apply anymore.
Is anybody reading this?
I sometimes wonder whether or not anybody is reading this. Or if they are, if they’re getting anything out of it.
I know – the counter on the left hand side shows that some are reading. However, nobody is leaving comments. Or sending me e-mail. I’m just talking to myself.
Please consider this an opportunity to de-lurk. And if the comment process is too difficult, just click my e-mail address on the left and send me a note and I’ll work on that.
Comments
A user e-mailed me and let me know that comments were not working. I believe that I have fixed them now.
Sorry about that.
A Few Updates
It’s been a little quiet here. There are a few reasons.
1. My boss has assigned me a hot project, that is going to require a lot of thinking and take up my daytime.
2. I’ve been burning the candle at both ends a bit. Every weekend for the past few weeks I’ve had either work (data conversion on Sunday – a career hazard) or family on one of the two days. The other day, I’ve been doing my flying lessons and trying to get the chores (cut the lawn, pay the bills, etc) done. No rest time.
A few updates on milestones:
1. I’ve done my first 2 cross-country trips for my flight training – both to Cape May. I have a longer one to do, then the dual long cross country, plus my solo cross countries. This is going well.
2. The solar panels on the roof are complete and fully in use! See my other blog at Smith Electric Company for more info.
I’ll post more when I have something important to say, or I’m not in such a time-crunch.
Solar Energy; Out of Office
All but one of the solar panels have been installed on our house. The remaining work on the outside will be completed on Monday – we expect the electrical work to be completed May 18 or some day that week. See the project site at Smith Electric Company.
I will be attending a training class in Philadelphia next week, so postings here will be few and far between.
Amazon and Books
Over on the right-hand side of the page, you will now see a list of books and an Amazon.com link.
Typepad allows it’s users to automatically link to Amazon.com when posting a list of books. They also allow us to use an Amazon.com Associates program ID to get credit when one of you clicks on the link and buys something.
As of yesterday, I am a participant in the Amazon.com Associates Program. I get a little commission when you click one of the links on this page and buy something from them (or in a few other circumstances).
So, if you were planning to buy a book (or anything else) from Amazon.com and you want to help me pay for this site, please consider coming here first and then clicking the link on the right. No pressure, and I probably won’t mention the program again. Thank you if you choose to do so.
NOTE: This was on an older incarnation of this blog and no longer exists.
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