HAL's First (and hopefully only) Wreck....

Yup - I was a participant in a little accident today on the way home from work. I was the first car stopped at a red light when a young lady in a Hyundai SUV decided not to stop at the light. A big jolt ensued...

HAL took some physical body damage - as seen in the pictures below. As far as internal or structural damage in the rear part of the car - that will have to wait until I get him looked at after the insurance process is underway. I did notice that both of my back doors squeak when you open and shut them now...whereas this morning, they did not do that.

As for me, I am a bit shaken up physically and mentally - so we'll see how I feel when I wake up tomorrow.

Here are some pics of HAL - and for all those that know me well, you know how this rips me to shreds to see HAL take a few dings. Yeah...it sucks.

At least I'm looking at houses tomorrow to try and take my mind off of what happened this evening.

Ugh....

New Zealand 2013-15??

Unfortunately, Emirates Team New Zealand lost the America's Cup this week to Alinghi which mean my trip to New Zealand to see the Cup race is delayed until at least 2013. How disappointing. The next cup is scheduled to take place somewhere in Europe (probably Valencia, Spain) between 2009 and 2011, so maybe I'll get to go there. We'll see.

The upper 90s are coming for Sunday and Monday - with dew points in the upper 50s to mid 60s. This can mean only one thing....that someone will have to drive by my hotel and peel me off the parking lot because I won't physically be able to survive the walk to the car without passing out from humidity sickness.

On the house front...the search goes on. One really nice place so far - but there's a lot more to look at. Gotta find one with that microwave hood thingie already installed....

Enjoy your weekend all...I'll be spending the whole thing inside on day shifts.

A Day of Round 1's

Round 1: My First Lead Meeting

This went really well - though when I brought up a hint of something that I might want to investigate to see if perhaps we could someday for just a moment consider doing something a little differently - I made a co-lead or two a little bit nervous.

Yeah...change is bad - that's why I decided to move 1600 miles outside of my comfort zone. :-)

Round 1: Take Thirteen

Today it was 82 degrees with 40 degree dewpoints - which is basically as perfect a day outside as it can get in early July in HumidityLand, Kentucky.

And since my realtor was busy I decided to enjoy being outside by seeing my first movie in my new town. You guessed it - Ocean's Thirteen. Great flick...

Movie #2 coming soon - probably Harry Potter on the IMAX. Yeah...IMAX

Round 1: Indian Springs

Of course I didn't waste the entire day indoors...between the lead meeting and the movie, I played my first round of golf since moving to Kentucky with the Science and Operations Officer from the office and his son. First hole - PAR, second hole - BOGEY, third hole - NINE. Ended up shooting 49-44-93 with a birdie and a couple of pars on the back nine.

Anyways...one picture from the course. Not a great photo - just one to show you how much I'm going to enjoy golfing here. Specifically notice all the new friends I'm going to make while golfing here (hint: the tall folks with the brown clothes and the green hair).

Enjoy...house hunt resumes tomorrow with a full day. Wish me luck...

My Karma Strikes Again...

So Laura happens to have the Versus Network - which is covering the America's Cup. I wake up to watch the race this morning and guess what...

NO WIND = NO RACE. AHHHHHHH!!!!!

Guess I'm destined to not see an America's Cup Race until 2010 or 2011.

Oh well - back to enjoying my weekend with Laura...

Hope everyone is doing well and having a better-than-Jazzy karma Sunday.