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| A followup to the ambulance thing. About 10 minutes beforehand I had seen my assistant pastor and his wife go by on their bikes. Unfortunately, his wife was the one they were looking for. After hitting a patch of gravel, she fell and hit her head, despite having a helment on. She's currently recovering in Huntsville Hospital from the rather serious concussion. On a related yet seeming unrelated note, I baked cookies on Sunday. Pastor Wood does a prison ministry at Limestone County Prison near Huntsville, and takes cookies to the prisoners. He has excellent witnessing skills, so I'm glad to help him out any way possible. The extra cookies I made turned out quite well (and are already gone). Friday I hit up five states: AL, TN, NC, GA, and SC, the last one being #48 on my lifetime list. While in SC I saw only the second Swainson's Warbler I've ever seen (the other being 1995 in VA on the Appalachian Trail). Very pretty area- I look forward to future trips there. Submitted the revision for paper #2 today. Also found out my NASA badge is finally ready to pick up on site. Ironically (or not) I need a badge to get access to the building where I pick up my badge, so am currently waiting on my supervisor to get me a visitor pass. Things are finally coming into place just in time for my renewal application. | | |
| Before yesterday I had never seen or heard of a police car pulling someone over to ask for directions. Both are true now. (At least it wasn't me!) Busy week at work. One paper was reviewed and given the rating "pending major revisions"... that paper was finally sent back to the journal on Monday. We'll see if the next round turns out better. Tuesday I got back another paper that was rating "accepted pending minor revisions". So, all of Tuesday through today was spent on the six pages of "minor revisions" from two reviewers. With any luck the acceptance will come just in time to fill out my renewal application, which is pretty much guaranteed with a publication. | | |
| Saw a job posting today at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center for a Ph.D. Meteorologist starting at $68k/yr. Was sad that it closes July 3, meaning I can't apply for it. (If I leave my current position before October 8 of this year, I have to repay $11k in moving expenses. Technically I would come out ahead for the year, but that's a lot of money to come up with all at once.)
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| For those of you who are Nevada readers, October 9-11 in Reno is for sure now. | | |
| Seems like this has turned from a blog about me to a blog about travelling, which I guess isn't too much different. It turns out the KLM vouchers are only good on NW, not Delta, and NW becomes Delta in November, so I need to use them up soon. At the same time, we got a wedding invite from JP&Regina for August 1. So, Kelly and I are flying to OKC that weekend. It took a lot less miles to go with Delta for Kelly, so even though we have the same flights to OKC we have different ones on the way back. Still, I'll take a weird arrangement for $10 over a normal one for $650. It looks like our best option for Reno is to fly out of Nashville sometime in October. Tentatively looking at October 9-11. With all these trips, I looked into how much flying constitutes special status on NW Airlines. Turns out I'm nowhere close: 25000 miles or 30 flight segments. I think I'm at 13000ish and 11, respectively. Even counting the OKC and Reno trips, and the Raleigh conference, I'd still be short. The only other possibility is if I flew NW/Delta to the AGU conference, which might be a consideration if it's close at that point. Since it's on an employer's travel budget I'd have to consider cost first, of course. Separately from flying, we're going to a wedding in Louisville in mid-July... don't remember the weekend offhand. | | |
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