Next week is Hampton, VA. for a meeting for $New_Project. Fly Tuesday, meeting Wednesday and Thursday, Fly home Friday. At least I'm getting to see parts of the country I haven't seen before. Trips for $big_project are almost all Yuma, AZ, though there may (or may not) be trips to Houston and possibly other locations. I have trips to Gulfport, MS and some more trips to the Norfolk area coming up for $new_project through the year.

I'm pretty much settled on a Lenovo Thinkpad T61p, T9300, 4 gigs, Vista Business 64. From what I've read it seems like a lot of the problems with Vista are either upgraders, or those close to the so-called "minimum" system specs. At this point, I'm waiting for SP1 to be available pre-loaded, and to see what happens with my pay in April. I might take advantage of the 6 months no interest offer, paying off in 4 months would be quite easy.

Mechanic was in town for a couple days. Unfortunately teh Apache is now in more pieces now than we started "putting it back together". However there is now a rebuilt carb, new battery, antenna, and a lot of other parts sitting in the hanger waiting for his return. There is a small possibility that I may be trading the Apache and a sum of cash in a couple months for a Baron. The deal depends on a lot of things, not the least of which is my ability to get insured in a Baron, so it's probably less than a 50% shot. Still, faster is better.

We can't claim TFT on our taxes this year, she wasn't with us for 6 months of last year. It also means we don't get the $300 extra of the "rebate" for her. Oh well, we didn't get her for the tax break anyways. We had a scare with her, she was dizzy and lightheaded. Went to ER (this was early AM before urgent care was open), spend the better part of the morning there without a real satisfactory diagnosis. That evening still very lightheaded, back to ER, her blood pressure was 55/35! Yikes! She had been on Clonodine, a blood pressure med, to "help her sleep", but we think she was actually on it to counteract the effects of her other meds which we stopped. But since all we had to go on was her medical records, we didn't stop the Clonodine. Well, now it's stopped, and she's been fine since. So, now the only med she takes is her thyroid med.

Thanks to the b0rkeness of the Apache, we will be driving up to FIL's for Easter. TFT really gets along with FIL. FIL has a horse, so of course he's TFT's favorite, and FIL seems to really like TFT. I'm not looking forward to the drive, but it's been a while since we've seen FIL, so I'm cool with it.

It's late, we're getting up early to drive to FIL, so time to post.