140-Pounders

So Sue passed through the half-way mark of her internship program this week. To tell the truth, she and her peers weren't as excited as I'd have expected. I could be wrong, but I think mainly it's because the job/fellowship/grant/postdoc hunt (for most in the program) is weighing a bit heavy.

In October, we hosted a 25% Internship Completeness Party (mentioned way back here), and it sounds like in late February or early March, we'll be hosting a 75% Completeness Party. Maybe by then, folks will be revved up. I'll report back.

In other news, it's a longer story than this (with the balance of the story not really worth telling), we'll be rolling our car to Firestone this morning. Those of you who've been here know there's a Firestone just down the street.

You'll remember our garage springs post from December: Pretty Violent. Well, last night, we made a trip to Home Depot, and Sue and I spent some time working to install lower gauge springs on our garage door. It wasn't closing smoothly. We put 160lb springs on there last time; this time we installed 140-pounders. Well, I left the car's headlights on for the hour-or-so it took to complete the replacement/installation.

The good thing is that the springs are now totally installed with safety wire, and yay(!), the door closes smoothly. The bad news is, Grover's battery died. Firestone opens at 7, hence my completion of this post at 6:16AM.

Happy Friday, peoples! Wittle kitty anyone?



PS
In other kitty news, check this out. Local kitty identifies dead people... before they die. Thanks for passing this on, JonJon!