Category: Life News

It’s gonna be a short week, this week is. Well, short for work – long for play. The 4th of July holiday falls on Wednesday, so I’ll be working Monday and Tuesday. Wednesday, Laura and I and our friends the Gregorys will venture downtown for the celebration in DC. We’ll be staying in a hotel in Arlington so we don’t have to fight the crowds too much.

We’ll be taking pictures of all that we can, of course, but the celebration in the capitol is one we’ve never yet seen even though we’ve lived here through two already.

After that, we’ll sight-see some more downtown and then head back to Reston where more packing will commence. Packing. Yuck.

I hit a “big” number on the odometer of my motorcycle yesterday: 22222. Yep, all 2s. It means the same frontwards or backwards and no matter how you shuffle it, it always comes up 22222.

Normally, that’s not an important number – in fact, it’s not really now. It just looks cool. Except for one thing: by the time I got home, it said 22224. Now THAT’S not cool.

What is important, is that I’ve had my motorcycle almost two years and I’ve put more mileage on it already than most motorcyclists put on their bike in 10 or more years. Of course, lately I’ve been only riding to the local Microsoft office which is less than two miles away… not a big mileage run, but it’ll do I suppose…

Now that my Dad is back home in Houston, I’ve gone back to work again. I thought I would be getting around to processing and posting all the backlog of pictures I have – especially those of Glacier National Park, but work seems to suck the time out of my day. Not that I mind too much: I love my job, you know.

I just have to get used to getting up early again…

Sitting in the office today, I was roused out of my LCD-induced stupor by the sound of what seemed like a freight train running through the office building. It turned out that out of the what 2 minutes before was a clear, blue sky came falling 3/4 inch balls of ice: Hail.

Yes, hail. Hail in June, no less.

I guess that I’m not riding my bike home until it clears up a little outside. That could hurt.

My father’s in town this week, so I took today off. Today, we’ll go visit the National Air & Space Museum Udvar-Hazy Center. I’ve been once before, but I had a film camera and only had 100 speed film. Now, with a much better camera and lens, I can take more pictures. We’ll see how they turn out.

In preparation for our upcoming move, we are selling some things on eBay, like our Canon S80 and waterproof case. It’s kind of a pain in the rear, but we’ll see if we can actually get some money back from our investments.

Anyone want a new camera?