I've been on two bike rides since my last post, a pleasant sign of spring, free time, and things to come in the months ahead. Yesterday was a pretty short outing - up the hill to NCRB, east through the NC, south on Huron River Drive, then home through Gallup Park. Today was back up the hill, west southwest into town, down to the stadium, back towards Central campus and home past the hospital. Both were fairly low miles, but Ann Arbor's hills made them good warmups for a cycling summer.
Without classes, one might leap to the conclusion that I'm done with homework. One would be wrong. I've spent the last two days trying to crank out the final vestiges of NA 416, but it is a comedy of errors of Shakespearian magnitude with this course. In between bouts of plates and shells, I've gotten rather a lot done on the second phase of my GSRA (empty ships) and done the typical end-of-semester organizing. It's amazing how long it can take to reduce a stack of papers to a couple of binders and a bunch of tiny hole-punch-sized pieces of paper.
Finally, it is Anthony's birthday today, so I called to wish him well and we were laughing about the ski trip. Thus the moral for today's post: go on trips with your friends. Not at the expense of family trips or travel with an SOS or even the occasional solo journey, but take trips with friends. Dave Hossenlopp (who taught me a new word today; "gank" - to borrow permanently) toasted the seniors at last Friday's NA/ME banquet with:
"There are good ships
And there are wood ships
The ships that sail the sea.
But the best ships are friendships
And may they always be."
Perfect for navarchs, who seem to be more sentimental than your average engineer. But that is a topic for another post. Meantime, trips with friends!
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Thursday, April 21, 2005