Calmed

[jay]

Or at least not moving rapidly, as patgreene is home, but both of our cars are broken. The van is getting its bodywork done after the wreck en route to the hospital, while the transmission failed on the convertible. After only 18K miles on the last one... this will be $3K in car repairs in one week, grr. A lighter foot and better workmanship would have helped...

Otherwise, I had to pull together a set of speakers on our Space Launch Initiative work in vehicle health management to brief my boss today, and also give the overview myself. It went well... but later, my boss privately said that he could understand my keeping a low profile for the past couple of years, but that over the next couple he expected to see me take a more visible project leadership or PI role somewhere.

And tomorrow, ice skating lessons begin for this year! (bounce)

Comments

Re: *sigh*

[brian1789.livejournal.com]

A joint family outing would be fun... all three of my boys skate, at varying levels. I can't attest to my teaching abilities, but I'm willing to try ;-). And what are (or were) Hornpipes? Sounds vaguely nautical...

Re: *sigh*

[dawnd.livejournal.com]

Yes, hornpipes are nautical. They are an Irish dance form associated with the Navy. The distinguishing characteristic in this case is that there are several places in the dance where one is up on one's toes with one foot right in front of the other, and then rocks one's ankles back and forth side to side in time with the music, while maintaining that position. It requires quite a bit of ankle and calf strength to do it. I learned to do these at the Starry Plough, a pub in Berkeley where they have Irish dancing every Monday night.