Packing up to head back to Utah in the morning. Spike always finds a way to climb into one of my bags. I think it is a hint. I’m not sure he would actually make 2 minutes on the bike though…

I’m going to Farmington tomorrow, staying with Chris and his family there, as Chris is headed up to visit. Going to ride up into the Jemez, and then take ‘highway’ 126 over the mountain to Cuba. I say ‘highway’ because it is closed in the winter since it is entirely dirt road. Should be fun. The V-Strom is tuned up and will soon be packed up as well. Thursday morning I am headed to Utah. Should be fun.

OK that is a bad picture. The moon had a lunar eclipse last night, and I just happened to wake up at 4:45am and go take this shot. Not enough light to make the autofocus happy, and it was too small in the viewfinder to manual focus, but you get the idea.

Regardless, I’ve been running here and there for the last month or so, back and forth from Utah. I should hopefully have a place rented up there in a couple of weeks and be able to start hauling things up there in bulk, but… not just yet. Right now, I just kind of sit in limbo while I wait for everything to fall into place. Let me tell you how much fun that is.

I’m headed back up on Wednesday, going to ride the motorcycle up since my pickup is already up there. I put on a new tire and did a valve shim job, so the bike is ready to go. I’ll try to update with pictures as I go, but we’ll see. Busy busy.

Brian is still working up the mounting for the giant turbo he is putting in his Mustang. Here you can see him attempting to TIG weld a mounting bracket.

Still in Utah, at least for the day. Tomorrow I am headed back to Los Alamos for a short while before coming back up here. Mariel moves in on Sunday, and then we are going to Socorro for a couple of days the first of next week to hang out with some friends. It will be nice to unwind for a few days and not do any work. Doing two weeks at a time here is working out pretty well, but near the end of the two weeks, I start getting a tad frazzled, trying to wrap things up, and just getting kind of burnt out on just sleeping and working with nothing else going on.

Next week, I will be moving snurkle.net over to a new co-lo in California, so things might be wacky for a day or two as all that settles, but I doubt it will be much of a deal.

Hope everyone is having fun.

Rode the bike into the lab yesterday, and I ended up beating Brian home, so I went for a ride around sunset. I saw this view and had to get a shot. Sorry the panoramic ended up not looking so hot, but hey, I rather liked the view. I have some updates from the weekend, but I am still working on that post, so I’ll have it here soon. Getting back on the road on Friday, wheee!

Didn’t do a lot today, just manned the couch. Lucy and Sandy (Lucy is on the right) are taking advantage of the lazy day by camping out on the back of Brian’s couch. Brian had a birthday yesterday, and we all went out to Sizzler tonight to celebrate. I had a big bowl of ice cream. I hadn’t been to a Sizzler in years, but, as it was then, it was the best part of the whole deal. We spent a while at his folk’s place watching a movie and eating cake.

Wet and overcast here still. They say it will clear up middle of the week, in time for me to head out again. I’d like some rain, but not the whole way.