Category: Miscellaneous babble

Made it to 174 000 miles on my 1991 Accord today. That means I’ve owned this car for 40 000 miles and just over 4 years. Car’s holding up pretty well, aside from some body problems. Nowadays it doesn’t get driven around nearly as much as when I first got it. Having to do a few major repairs every now and then, but that’s to be expected as parts wear out. Eventually I’ll have to replace it, but hopefully I’ll be able to squeeze another 40 000 miles out of the car. I want to see this puppy roll over to 200 000 miles.

The CT scanner below my office was removed a couple of weeks ago, and now they’re doing renovations on the room getting it ready for a new CT scanner. A few days ago they were doing some drilling through cement or something. Now it’s some kind of repetitive hammering noise. Floor work or something perhaps. I don’t know what they’re doing down there, but it’s loud and rattling my brain.

I think I shall be leaving work early today so I can escape this racket.

Added a couple of CDs to my collection today. As a Canadian, I’m naturally a fan of The Tragically Hip. I happened to be browsing around the local Cat’s Music waiting for the barber shop to open, and found Road Apples and Fully Completely in their ‘Dog Pound’ (used CDs) section. The price was right, ($6.50/CD), so i just had to grab them.

Ahhh, decent music for a change…

Well, turns out we won’t be moving after all, and I won’t be working at Duke this fall. The wife has been having such a good experience in the research lab she’s in and seems to be clicking well with her mentor, so she’s decided she wants to stick around. I suppose it’s just as well. She’s already established some connections with people here, and she thinks getting into med school here will be a little easier than in NC, even though there’s more of a choice there.

So now I have to come up with a way of breaking the unfortunate news to my would-have-been colleagues up at Duke. My friend Ehsan will be disappointed. I’m a little disappointed. I was looking forward to taking on some new challenges at Duke, but it’s not like I had my heart set on it. I’d have been happy in either place. The important thing is seeing that the wife gets to pursue her goals. I’m sure everything will work out nicely in the end.

I hate moving. I’ve made 3 moves so far in my life, and i’m starting to get ready for my 4th. And each time, there’s more and more Stuff to move. That’s the nature of Stuff I suppose. It grows to expand your available space. Some Stuff is useful. Other Stuff just becomes Junk. And since I’m a bit of a packrat, some of my Stuff that should be Junk just ends up sticking around.

So now I’m in the middle of collecting boxes to put my Stuff into. Some of the Stuff will become Junk, and end up getting tossed. The rest will remain Stuff and will get packed away. Someone’s supposed to be stopping by to look at my Stuff and give me an estimate on how much it will cost to move it. Sometimes, I think I should just get rid of all my Stuff and start over.

Then I have to see about making all the address changes. There are a good deal of them, and inevitably, I’ll forget one or two of them. Thank goodness for mail forwarding.

Also have to get my car checked out and make sure it will survive the trip to my new home. Been having some cooling issues with it lately, and don’t want it dying on the road in the middle of my trip.