flurries
i think there's nothing better than taking a walk on a nice winter day, with tori amos at high volume on the ipod, knowing that there's only a few hours before cindy comes back into town, when it's just beginning to snow.

rough decision...
well, not really. with my gps software class, i fulfill 3 of the 4 required "core" classes for my m.s. in aerospace engineering. and my nifty user interface class covers my "applied computing" requirement, which just leaves me to pick a math class to take next year some time. so i think i'll drop attitude determination & control for now, and take it next year instead as my final "core" class. i decided that even though i usually think of adcs as something that i just don't get, i should take the class anyway to exercise the 3-d visualization part of my brain that used to work so well, but has been atrophying due to disuse. and most of the other core classes are not all that interesting, really. good thing that intro to space life sciences is a core class, otherwise there wouldn't be any core classes from the bioastronautics track that i'm on. we've been telling the grad school that they should fix it, and it sounds like they're actually restructuring the graduate program. we shall see...

busted!
i had to work a late shift from 8-midnight last night, helping out with the icesat commissioning. so, since it was a tuesday, i wanted to get home quickly from work, change, and then head down to club vinyl to meet up with travis & alicia and hear some dj mle. so i was doing my customary ungodly-but-safe speed down foothills parkway, when i spotted a police car parked on the shoulder of the road with its lights off. i jammed on the brakes and downshifted, but it was too late. she got me for doing 62 in a 45 zone, which is a fine of $100 and 4 points on my licence. i think i'll go to traffic court just for the experience, since i've never been in court before. should be interesting. of course, being a tuesday night, i figured that it was just a random thing that the boulder county sheriff's office would have a speed trap where i've never seen one before (although travis says they're there all the time). but lo and behold, in the 30 minutes between leaving work, going home, and getting on the highway to denver, i saw a total of 5 police cars. very odd for a tuesday night. of course, the 2nd one i saw was following me down jay road, where i usually drive 60 instead of the posted 45 if there's nobody else on the road. i think it would have been funny to get two speeding tickets within the space of 15 minutes. well, funny "doh," not funny "ha-ha."

safari
maybe the new apple browser safari screwed up my last attempt to post this. perhaps internet explorer will work...