(new thing I'm trying; each week I will post a one word description of the relevant past.)
:::[ Jaded ]:::
Sunday, August 30, 2009
Saturday, August 29, 2009
Hypoxia and why you should pay attention to your flight attendants....
Common Symptoms:
Hypoxia occurs when your body does not get enough oxygen. Symptoms vary from person to person. The percentage of oxygen in the atmosphere is constant but the partial pressure decreases proportionately as atmospheric pressure decreases. This translates to the higher you go, there are fewer oxygen molecules available at the pressure required for them to pass through the membranes in your respiratory system. Not enough oxygen eventually results in death.
At typical commercial airline cruising altitudes from 30,000-45,000ft above mean sea level, the time of useful consciousness available to don the overhead oxygen masks that drop down from the the cabin ceiling in the event of cabin depressurization is as follows:
30,000ft - 1 to 2 mins.
35,000ft - 30 to 60 sec.
40,000ft - 15 to 20 sec.
45,000ft - 9 to 15 sec.
This is why you are instructed to help yourselves first before helping others. You need to be conscious long enough to put th mask on. So next time you fly commercial, turn off the ebook reader, put down the sky mall, pay attention to your flight attendant's demonstration. You may only have less than a minute to survive. Oh and by the way if you smoke you'll have even less time.
Happy landings!
- Headaches
- Decreased Reaction Time
- Impaired Judgment
- Euphoria
- Visual Impariment
- Drowsiness
- Lightheaded or Dizzy Sensation
- Tingling in Fingers and Toes
- Numbness
- Blue Fingernails and Lips (Cyanosis)
- Limp Muscles
Hypoxia occurs when your body does not get enough oxygen. Symptoms vary from person to person. The percentage of oxygen in the atmosphere is constant but the partial pressure decreases proportionately as atmospheric pressure decreases. This translates to the higher you go, there are fewer oxygen molecules available at the pressure required for them to pass through the membranes in your respiratory system. Not enough oxygen eventually results in death.
At typical commercial airline cruising altitudes from 30,000-45,000ft above mean sea level, the time of useful consciousness available to don the overhead oxygen masks that drop down from the the cabin ceiling in the event of cabin depressurization is as follows:
30,000ft - 1 to 2 mins.
35,000ft - 30 to 60 sec.
40,000ft - 15 to 20 sec.
45,000ft - 9 to 15 sec.
This is why you are instructed to help yourselves first before helping others. You need to be conscious long enough to put th mask on. So next time you fly commercial, turn off the ebook reader, put down the sky mall, pay attention to your flight attendant's demonstration. You may only have less than a minute to survive. Oh and by the way if you smoke you'll have even less time.
Happy landings!
228 hours.
Approximately 228 hours until I step off the plane in Tokyo. Then approximately 504 hours until I step off the plane again in back in Newark. I have at least 14 books to finish some of which include these:
for further study of economics:
for further study of economics:
Liars' Poker by Michael Lewis
Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe
A Random Walk Down Wall Street by Burton Malkiel
Inefficient Markets: An Introduction to Behavioral Finance by Andrei Shleifer
Managing Financial Risk by Charles W. Smithson
For shear fun and just because I feel like it and actually have time to read without being bogged down with undergraduate coursework:
Pale Blue Dot; The Demon-Haunted World, Science as a Candle in the Dark; Cosmos by Carl Sagan (favorite author so far. I wish I was born a quarter century earlier to be able to experience "Uncle Carl" in the flesh.)
A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe - I have to read this!
For further study of geography:
Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond
Longitude by Dava Sobel
For breaking the 4 year long abstinence of mathematics unless you count a failed attempt at statistics.....and and intro comp sci course that doesn't really count which I did not fail. And for feeling like an idiot and perhaps having poor arithmetic skills which is actually a disability but nobody but psychologists seem to understand that:
Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea by Charles Seife
For feeling like a child again and actually having a colorful imagination:
Black and White by Jackie Kessler and Caitlin Kittredge (a superhero fantasy)
There are a few more that I'm halfway through but right now I just am not interested enough to take them with me to Japan.
How many hours will I spend actually reading instead of sleeping, or driving to Chiba to go surfing on the volcanic sand beaches of the Pacific I don't know. I've winged it before and I'll wing it again.
For now, FML, FTW and F everyone else...
For shear fun and just because I feel like it and actually have time to read without being bogged down with undergraduate coursework:
Pale Blue Dot; The Demon-Haunted World, Science as a Candle in the Dark; Cosmos by Carl Sagan (favorite author so far. I wish I was born a quarter century earlier to be able to experience "Uncle Carl" in the flesh.)
A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe - I have to read this!
For further study of geography:
Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond
Longitude by Dava Sobel
For breaking the 4 year long abstinence of mathematics unless you count a failed attempt at statistics.....and and intro comp sci course that doesn't really count which I did not fail. And for feeling like an idiot and perhaps having poor arithmetic skills which is actually a disability but nobody but psychologists seem to understand that:
Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea by Charles Seife
For feeling like a child again and actually having a colorful imagination:
Black and White by Jackie Kessler and Caitlin Kittredge (a superhero fantasy)
There are a few more that I'm halfway through but right now I just am not interested enough to take them with me to Japan.
How many hours will I spend actually reading instead of sleeping, or driving to Chiba to go surfing on the volcanic sand beaches of the Pacific I don't know. I've winged it before and I'll wing it again.
For now, FML, FTW and F everyone else...
simblissity...
...especially when you need to eat and go. We spend so much time eating during the day and missing some of life's little things. (Well not really but sometimes it feels like having to prepare and sit down to eat and then clean takes a bit more time than I'd like.)
So one word; bagels.
Spread on some cream cheese (I like garden veggie) and couple slices of smoked salmon, throw in some capers; press them into the cream cheese (if you like them of course.) Maybe add some fresh basil and a couple of sun dried tomatoes and a hint of lemon juice. Add a dash of black pepper if you like or don't, up to you.
The toaster oven is becoming my best friend:)
I have to be careful though since the kitten is very inquisitive and any counter top activity is fascinating to it especially the smoked salmon. (The more I live with this kitten the more I'd really like to get one in the future. When I have the time, space, ability to afford it, I'd really like a Korat.)
slice down the middle, grab it and go. (Not the kitten, we're eating bagels here!)
I see a future of bagel creations. Thinking of trying bagel pizzas and maybe roasted eggplant and Parmesan. More bagel experiments to come...
So one word; bagels.
Spread on some cream cheese (I like garden veggie) and couple slices of smoked salmon, throw in some capers; press them into the cream cheese (if you like them of course.) Maybe add some fresh basil and a couple of sun dried tomatoes and a hint of lemon juice. Add a dash of black pepper if you like or don't, up to you.
The toaster oven is becoming my best friend:)
I have to be careful though since the kitten is very inquisitive and any counter top activity is fascinating to it especially the smoked salmon. (The more I live with this kitten the more I'd really like to get one in the future. When I have the time, space, ability to afford it, I'd really like a Korat.)
slice down the middle, grab it and go. (Not the kitten, we're eating bagels here!)
I see a future of bagel creations. Thinking of trying bagel pizzas and maybe roasted eggplant and Parmesan. More bagel experiments to come...
Wednesday, August 26, 2009
interesting day/night.
I talked to an old friend I haven't spoken to in over 4 years and gave me an idea that I think could work. If you just stop caring about everything, then anything that happens to you will be better than your original state. I guess this holds true. I've hit the bottom and the only other direction is to swim back up to the surface. 2009 so far is the worst year for me ever!
So anyway, going to Japan in a little over a week, and I just don't give a shit anymore. Whatever happens will happen and yeah I can't really do anything about it.
Other than that I did some fun things today: Helped my friend break into his car because he locked his keys in it. Coat hanger through the cracked window. This was better than the first option which would have been to borrow one of the airplanes (he's my instructor) and fly to Morristown, have his roommate drive his spare keys to him, fly back and then drive home. Would've been exciting but a little sketchy since the weather was not very good and we'd be scud running which is not recommended and it was dark too.
Scud Running is lowering your altitude to avoid clouds and remain withing visual contact with the ground. In theory it's better than being inside clouds and flying on instruments but there are other things such as radio towers, high tension wires, other tall things on the ground that are hard to see when you're zipping along at 120mph or worse are not lit at night. A lot of pilots who smuggle drugs from Sout America do this near the border to avoid detection by radar. The costs far outweigh the benefits as you don't have enough altitude and time to look for places to land if the engine quits, and you don't have the reflexes to adapt to "hugging" the terrain and most of the time people, aircraft and the ground meet to become one with each other. This is commonly referred to "buying the farm," or "auguring-in." (Something that I don't ever plan on doing.)
So got the car unlocked and then he decided to show me that we could drag race his Jetta on the runway at night. The owner of the airport is ok with this otherwise it's highly discouraged. Wasn't as fun as I thought it would be, he was only able to get it up to 90mph before we had to slow down. Too bad we only have a 3,500ft strip at Princeton though I doubt the Jetta will go much faster.
I gave my resume to a group of people in a small sub of a subcontracted engineering firm that takes aerial photos of traffic congestion in NJ and then runs a program that figures out if urban planners need to do things like add extra lanes and or exits to improve flow. They hang out at the airport all the time (I practically live there now,) waiting for good weather to go take their surveys. Sounds fun and what I'm into. They use GIS, play with cameras and fly around which makes them awesome in my book :)
So anyway, going to Japan in a little over a week, and I just don't give a shit anymore. Whatever happens will happen and yeah I can't really do anything about it.
Other than that I did some fun things today: Helped my friend break into his car because he locked his keys in it. Coat hanger through the cracked window. This was better than the first option which would have been to borrow one of the airplanes (he's my instructor) and fly to Morristown, have his roommate drive his spare keys to him, fly back and then drive home. Would've been exciting but a little sketchy since the weather was not very good and we'd be scud running which is not recommended and it was dark too.
Scud Running is lowering your altitude to avoid clouds and remain withing visual contact with the ground. In theory it's better than being inside clouds and flying on instruments but there are other things such as radio towers, high tension wires, other tall things on the ground that are hard to see when you're zipping along at 120mph or worse are not lit at night. A lot of pilots who smuggle drugs from Sout America do this near the border to avoid detection by radar. The costs far outweigh the benefits as you don't have enough altitude and time to look for places to land if the engine quits, and you don't have the reflexes to adapt to "hugging" the terrain and most of the time people, aircraft and the ground meet to become one with each other. This is commonly referred to "buying the farm," or "auguring-in." (Something that I don't ever plan on doing.)
So got the car unlocked and then he decided to show me that we could drag race his Jetta on the runway at night. The owner of the airport is ok with this otherwise it's highly discouraged. Wasn't as fun as I thought it would be, he was only able to get it up to 90mph before we had to slow down. Too bad we only have a 3,500ft strip at Princeton though I doubt the Jetta will go much faster.
I gave my resume to a group of people in a small sub of a subcontracted engineering firm that takes aerial photos of traffic congestion in NJ and then runs a program that figures out if urban planners need to do things like add extra lanes and or exits to improve flow. They hang out at the airport all the time (I practically live there now,) waiting for good weather to go take their surveys. Sounds fun and what I'm into. They use GIS, play with cameras and fly around which makes them awesome in my book :)
Monday, August 24, 2009
Almost there....
So I've been practicing the FAA's written test for private pilots for almost 2 months now. It consists of a a 61 question test on all aspects of general aviation. Topics such as weather, mechanics, performance, procedures, psychology, navigation, NTSB, medical, aerodynamics, and much more. I'm scheduled to take the real thing tomorrow morning at Princeton and hopefully pass. The amount of stuff you need to know is very tedious and it costs $100 to take. Once I pass, I'll be ready to pass my final pre checkride lesson where I will go up and demonstrate that I can perform all maneuvers, handle hypothetical emergency scenarios, and most of all be smooth with the handling. After exactly a year of flying, I've gotten much better at "feeling the air" and working the controls to "nail" altitude, airspeed, heading and keeping the ball centered. I am very satisfied with this. Once this lesson is over, I'll be cleared to fly solo to 2 different airports and back on a multi-leg trip of at least 150 nautical miles. Actually this particular trip will be more like 270 nautical miles. I'll start in Princeton, go to Lancaster, PA, then Williamsport, PA, and finally back to Princeton, NJ. After that, I'll have to make sure I can do everything up to the standards if not exceed them and hopefully pass the checkride. It's been a long year, lots of setbacks recently, but I'm happy to have nearly completed a life goal I've had since I was 4.
One a side note, I'll probably be off to Japan for about 4 weeks in Sept. As I will be doing an accelerated course on credit, risk, finance, and banking with my dad and perhaps I'll finally understand what it is that he does for a living :) Perhaps could use this to my advantage to start making some serious cash in the near future. Probably try and make enough to pay for graduate school. Which reminds me I need to get on with starting my apps for that. Really like the idea of being somewhere warm and near a beach or at least a location that isn't too far from an outdoorsy kind of place, bike, hike trails. I'm thinking I might try and hike up Mt. Fuji finally, start in the evening, make an sunrise accent, put the new hiking boots to good use.
Can't wait to drive the M3!
One a side note, I'll probably be off to Japan for about 4 weeks in Sept. As I will be doing an accelerated course on credit, risk, finance, and banking with my dad and perhaps I'll finally understand what it is that he does for a living :) Perhaps could use this to my advantage to start making some serious cash in the near future. Probably try and make enough to pay for graduate school. Which reminds me I need to get on with starting my apps for that. Really like the idea of being somewhere warm and near a beach or at least a location that isn't too far from an outdoorsy kind of place, bike, hike trails. I'm thinking I might try and hike up Mt. Fuji finally, start in the evening, make an sunrise accent, put the new hiking boots to good use.
Can't wait to drive the M3!
Friday, August 21, 2009
job hunting prospects...
I've decided that I'm no longer interested in Aflac. Just doesn't seem to fit me. First Investors 2nd interview was good. I think they like me but they didn't tell me that the pay was all commission based. That scares me because the guy interviewing me told me that sometimes he would go two weeks without making a single dollar. It seems with commission based sales jobs can either be really really great money or none at all and this kind of instability doesn't sit comfortably with me.
I got my 2nd rejection letter from Environ today. I've applied twice, and they said they don't have any spots and won't be filling any anytime soon. Funny because they have the position I was applying for listed as available on their website. So in short, fuck them!
Still waiting on a reply from another environmental firm that I came across on monster.com.
So what else is new? I'm slowly discovering Princeton, NJ. It's kinda fun here, nice bars, good restaurants oh and a photography store that will process my 6x6 medium format slide film which I shot wit a Holga in NYC last fall. Other than that, still constantly online looking for jobs. Thinking about signing up for a GRE course at Kaplan. For some reason I'm really feeling like I want to be in Hawaii at the University of Hawaii in Manoa.
I got my 2nd rejection letter from Environ today. I've applied twice, and they said they don't have any spots and won't be filling any anytime soon. Funny because they have the position I was applying for listed as available on their website. So in short, fuck them!
Still waiting on a reply from another environmental firm that I came across on monster.com.
So what else is new? I'm slowly discovering Princeton, NJ. It's kinda fun here, nice bars, good restaurants oh and a photography store that will process my 6x6 medium format slide film which I shot wit a Holga in NYC last fall. Other than that, still constantly online looking for jobs. Thinking about signing up for a GRE course at Kaplan. For some reason I'm really feeling like I want to be in Hawaii at the University of Hawaii in Manoa.
Wednesday, August 19, 2009
looking on the brightside while wearing shades...
Ah things are finally starting to pick up at last. I've some how become desirable from an employer's standpoint or at least monster.com seems to think so. My resume/cv profile has jumped in strength from medium to strong (monster.com provides you with a short green colored task bar that displays your strength.) Since last week I've been invited to two interviews from to fortune 500 companies: Aflac (remember that stupid duck that tries to sell insurance on tv?) and 1st Investors Inc. (Financial products company: mutual funds, college funds, retirement funds ect.) Aflac didn't really strike me as being all that interesting, they wanted me to go to small businesses and try to get employees to sign up for policies, not really my thing. However 1st Investors seemed a little bit more engaging. Similar to to Aflac but trying to get clients to invest they're money in mutual funds. The important thing is both jobs require me to take a licensing test and pass. For 1st Investors I need to take the Series 6 exam. Good news is both offer very good salary based off commission from sales, 1st Investors claimed that six figure income was attainable within a few years and they meant like 2-3. Nevertheless I'm sure that they pulled that from their top sales people who most of us will be no where's near as good as.
So at least I'm getting somewhere. Sent my CV off to two other environmental firms with the hope of landing something at least in my field. Envrion Corp. and some other smaller start-up I believe. I would really like to hear back from these two soon.
Slowly ploughing through the FAA's practice written test for the Private Pilot and getting consistent 80%s. This is more than enough to pass but I want at least 90s before I plunk down $100 to take the real test. Went with Ryan my 3rd instructor for hamburgers at the restaurant at Sky Manor (N40) in Sommerville, NJ just a 10min hop from Princeton. After eating we climbed back into our scrappy little Cessna 152 and took off to practice diversions. Ryan gave me a random compass heading to fly for a few minutes then another one to follow. The idea was to get me to be able to find Princeton without flying directly to it from the departure airport and without using my GPS or VORs (VHF Omnidirectional range). Wasn't as easy as I thought despite the clear day. Turns out NJ looks very similar just about everywhere; suburbs, highways, more suburbs. I need to practice figuring out where I am based on just looking outside the window and staring at the map, nothing else.
Drove my brother to the DMV for the 3rd time. He passed his written test and got a permit. Only problem is he needs to wait at least 6 months before he can schedule his road test. Gotta love New Jersey. I think this is the reason I got a NY permit and licences, there were no time constraints and far less B.S. involved with proof of identity. I really wish that there was only a federal driver's license or "American" license, like every other country. Hey wait a minute, that's what the FAA does, you don't have individual state pilot's licenses, they're all the same and they're good everywhere! Best of all was the I.D. requirement was just a passport or driver's license. No need for the 6 points of I.D. crap where you need a mailed bank statement, social security card, birth certificate, geez!
Went to the movies with Anna this evening. Saw "500 Days of Summer," it was really good albeit the cheesy ending (yeah sorry I spoiled it for you but seriously who cares, you're all adults I presume so deal with it!). It's got the long haired dude from "Eurotrip" and I think the girl from "Yes Man (Zooey Deschanel aka Tricia McMillian from HHG2TG)." Was a falling in and then out of love kind of story. Very true I though. It dismisses the idea of fate or destiny and true love as being just illusions to which reality and existence is just simply all coincidences. We have coincidences everyday and those coincidences are the basis for the decisions we make in life which are for the most part random. It was sad, it was funny, it was surreal, it was shockingly realistic.
So remember kids, there's no such thing as "The One," love, it's just different levels of likeness that our minds play on us to get us to procreate. Marriage is a ridiculous contract that binds people to only procreate with each other exclusively. And what does this all end with? If you're lucky, you'll be happy and if you're not, you'll be unhappy. Reality's a bitch. And so is Jenny Beckman apparently.
Moral of the story: Don't listen to sad British pop music, it's depressing. Don't take the movie "The Graduate" too seriously. If you had a difficult childhood that makes you cold and unemotional, then you'll probably end up fucking with someones head, breaking they're heart and not regretting it because you're a selfish whore. Oh and nobody likes Ringo Star either!
So at least I'm getting somewhere. Sent my CV off to two other environmental firms with the hope of landing something at least in my field. Envrion Corp. and some other smaller start-up I believe. I would really like to hear back from these two soon.
Slowly ploughing through the FAA's practice written test for the Private Pilot and getting consistent 80%s. This is more than enough to pass but I want at least 90s before I plunk down $100 to take the real test. Went with Ryan my 3rd instructor for hamburgers at the restaurant at Sky Manor (N40) in Sommerville, NJ just a 10min hop from Princeton. After eating we climbed back into our scrappy little Cessna 152 and took off to practice diversions. Ryan gave me a random compass heading to fly for a few minutes then another one to follow. The idea was to get me to be able to find Princeton without flying directly to it from the departure airport and without using my GPS or VORs (VHF Omnidirectional range). Wasn't as easy as I thought despite the clear day. Turns out NJ looks very similar just about everywhere; suburbs, highways, more suburbs. I need to practice figuring out where I am based on just looking outside the window and staring at the map, nothing else.
Drove my brother to the DMV for the 3rd time. He passed his written test and got a permit. Only problem is he needs to wait at least 6 months before he can schedule his road test. Gotta love New Jersey. I think this is the reason I got a NY permit and licences, there were no time constraints and far less B.S. involved with proof of identity. I really wish that there was only a federal driver's license or "American" license, like every other country. Hey wait a minute, that's what the FAA does, you don't have individual state pilot's licenses, they're all the same and they're good everywhere! Best of all was the I.D. requirement was just a passport or driver's license. No need for the 6 points of I.D. crap where you need a mailed bank statement, social security card, birth certificate, geez!
Went to the movies with Anna this evening. Saw "500 Days of Summer," it was really good albeit the cheesy ending (yeah sorry I spoiled it for you but seriously who cares, you're all adults I presume so deal with it!). It's got the long haired dude from "Eurotrip" and I think the girl from "Yes Man (Zooey Deschanel aka Tricia McMillian from HHG2TG)." Was a falling in and then out of love kind of story. Very true I though. It dismisses the idea of fate or destiny and true love as being just illusions to which reality and existence is just simply all coincidences. We have coincidences everyday and those coincidences are the basis for the decisions we make in life which are for the most part random. It was sad, it was funny, it was surreal, it was shockingly realistic.
So remember kids, there's no such thing as "The One," love, it's just different levels of likeness that our minds play on us to get us to procreate. Marriage is a ridiculous contract that binds people to only procreate with each other exclusively. And what does this all end with? If you're lucky, you'll be happy and if you're not, you'll be unhappy. Reality's a bitch. And so is Jenny Beckman apparently.
Moral of the story: Don't listen to sad British pop music, it's depressing. Don't take the movie "The Graduate" too seriously. If you had a difficult childhood that makes you cold and unemotional, then you'll probably end up fucking with someones head, breaking they're heart and not regretting it because you're a selfish whore. Oh and nobody likes Ringo Star either!
Thursday, August 6, 2009
bad day....
With the tanked economy, not getting much luck with the job search, uncertainty of jury duty (which I was dismissed from fortunately), getting the run around from the NJDMV after driving for hours to get my brother a permit.....Bai ended what once was over the phone. (They always say phone breakups are the worst next to text messages.) I suppose it was going to happen sooner or later, still feel like the world is caving in on me but that's expected.
Other than that, had dinner with Joelle at PF Chang's in Marlton, NJ. Great tasting noodles and dim sum. We're both kind of in a similar situation. Overall life sucks.
Good news is I might have a diving job in Skaneateles if I can find a place to rent in the finger lakes that doesn't require a lease. Hopefully I'll find something. It's about time I saw a paycheck.
Did a house inspection of the new house my rents are buying to make sure all the systems work. So far no problems. Checked out the Hackettstown airport near where the house is and it seems alright well at least until I flew a short cross country from Princeton to there this afternoon. Very short sloped runway with obstacles at both ends, trees and power lines. Short field landings and takeoffs have a whole new meaning now, with 2 go-arounds and one aborted takeoff.
Test drove a Mazda MX-5 Miata that other day at a dealership in East Brunswick. Blue '06 model, convertible, stick shift. Very sporty, very small, very Jinba-Ittai experience. (Rider and horse as one in Japanese.) After transferring ownership of my VW hatchback to my brother for when he goes to college in the fall I'm definitely interested in the Miata. Though I need to test drive it's competitors: Honda S2000 and Pontiac Solstice.
All in all I'm upset with myself for letting this happen to me but there's nothing I can do about it and only in time will I start to feel better.
The pick-me-up for this evening was the left over dan-dan noodles from PF Chang's last night. Going to go lift some weights.....
Other than that, had dinner with Joelle at PF Chang's in Marlton, NJ. Great tasting noodles and dim sum. We're both kind of in a similar situation. Overall life sucks.
Good news is I might have a diving job in Skaneateles if I can find a place to rent in the finger lakes that doesn't require a lease. Hopefully I'll find something. It's about time I saw a paycheck.
Did a house inspection of the new house my rents are buying to make sure all the systems work. So far no problems. Checked out the Hackettstown airport near where the house is and it seems alright well at least until I flew a short cross country from Princeton to there this afternoon. Very short sloped runway with obstacles at both ends, trees and power lines. Short field landings and takeoffs have a whole new meaning now, with 2 go-arounds and one aborted takeoff.
Test drove a Mazda MX-5 Miata that other day at a dealership in East Brunswick. Blue '06 model, convertible, stick shift. Very sporty, very small, very Jinba-Ittai experience. (Rider and horse as one in Japanese.) After transferring ownership of my VW hatchback to my brother for when he goes to college in the fall I'm definitely interested in the Miata. Though I need to test drive it's competitors: Honda S2000 and Pontiac Solstice.
All in all I'm upset with myself for letting this happen to me but there's nothing I can do about it and only in time will I start to feel better.
The pick-me-up for this evening was the left over dan-dan noodles from PF Chang's last night. Going to go lift some weights.....
Sunday, August 2, 2009
Waiting it out...
Sitting, wishing, waiting.....for jury duty. Can't plan anything for the next few days because I don't know if I'm to report or not, and I won't know until I call a phone number today after 5pm. It's raining and humid in New Jersey, a typical gloomy summer day. I think I'll just read and practice for my FAA written test.
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