{"id":16468,"date":"2015-04-11T11:04:58","date_gmt":"2015-04-11T18:04:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=16468"},"modified":"2015-04-11T11:10:26","modified_gmt":"2015-04-11T18:10:26","slug":"time-for-an-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=16468","title":{"rendered":"Time for an Update"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"IMG_1272\"<\/a>Our friend Angie is here, along with our daughter Polly. Polly’s in town for a medical appointment. Angie’s visiting from Tampa, catching up with us and other old friends in Tucson. The\u00a0two of us are scheduled to lay trail for a bicycle hare & hounds event on the 19th. We’ll work in an air museum visit and a motorcycle ride to Bisbee too. Donna’s at a sewing guild workshop all day today; I’m supposed to go on a salmon quest\u00a0this morning, since that’s what the girls\u00a0want for dinner. Costco, I’m thinking, which is always dangerous: I love their French bread, and who knows what else will catch my eye?<\/p>\n

Since Polly’s\u00a0using the Murphy bed\u00a0in the home office, I can’t get to my desk to\u00a0work on the blog until much later in the morning than I’m used to. It’s 10:00 AM\u00a0now; I never write\u00a0this late in the day and consequently my mind is mostly blank.<\/p>\n

I think we’re going to buy a new Ford pickup truck before our big Labor Day weekend road trip to Northern California and Oregon. Now to figure out how to pay for it.<\/p>\n

I downloaded a free\u00a0iPad airport game\u00a0and started playing, only to learn\u00a0there’s no way to advance to higher levels without spending actual simoleons. You\u00a0can advance only so far in the free version; when you try to upgrade your airport or add airliners to your fleet, you discover what amounts to a paywall. Wow, that’s evil. I pity people with no self-control. Me, I’m going back to\u00a0Tetris.<\/p>\n

That’s my new Seiko up there in the corner. We used to joke about fighter pilots having\u00a0big Seikos and little dicks. It made\u00a0more sense in the Vietnam days, when big Seiko self-winding watches were the thing. I had a beauty, but water got into the movement and it’s a\u00a0paperweight now. Turns out Seiko still makes self-winders, so I got one. I had to decide what I wanted worse, a replacement Seiko or an Apple watch. Of course I want both, but it’s always\u00a0cooler to go retro than to embrace the latest consumer\u00a0product. Plus, there’s that new truck to pay for.<\/p>\n

I’m looking forward to some time with my daughter, our\u00a0friend, and the salmon I’m going to grill tonight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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