January 8, 2006

• I spent a few minutes with my plane this afternoon.  There was a breeze from the east, which always makes flying a little more interesting with a plane as light as the AeroBird.  I was able to do a few circles before something seemed to change in the tail section and it began choosing its own direction, which unfortunately included clipping a tree followed by burying its nose section in the soft mud of the creek.  (Yes, there are worse places it could have buried its nose.)  It seems a rubberband, which provided back pressure for the tail section, had snapped and left the plane mid-flight.  After replacing it and wiping the nose off I headed into the skies again and turned a few more circles before coming down for the last time today.

  The house will be a little quieter tonight.  Becky headed for the airport with Marco to pick up Anne and Jon, on their way home from skiing.  I'm sure Anne will be glad to see him again - and the affection will be returned on the other side as well.  It was fun to have him here.

  Joel set up a directory on our family web site where I can store documents for the adult class I teach at church.  That's pretty handy.  I downloaded FTP Commander from Tucows, which makes it really easy to shift files back and forth and rename directories.  OK - in the interests of honesty I did manage to gum up the index.html file Joel wrote to drive the thing.  But I'm confident he'll have "Limping Ox" up and dancing in no time (which is a reference to a figure in a skit by the comedian who did "The Hippy Dippy Weather Man", but whose name escapes me for the moment).

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