FMC 3.0

In James’  blog entry Wednesday, he mentioned that he reached 20000 miles in his car, which he bought almost exactly a year before I bought the Element. (Apparently he named it Fiona, but I somehow doubt my sister is gonna let that last.) He mentioned that my car, a year newer, is probably about to catch up. Well, he’s right. When I parked Nighthawk today, it was at around 19570. It’s gonna blip over by the end of next week. Guess that means I need to schedule my second oil change (which may well be 2 more than James has had.)

In other news, air base operations around here are back on track, if not short a runway. The C5 that came down Monday is still sitting the field. In person (I drove by there the other day) it seems even bigger in such a weird place for it to be sitting. But I definitely heard a Galaxy yesterday, as one roared right over the house (assumingly into the scantly used third runway at Dover) as I was getting out of bed. While the details of the crash are still trickling out, my biggest question is how they’re gonna move that big of a dead plane. That, and where they plan on putting it. It’s too big to go in a hangar (the hangars at Dover, while huge, can’t fit a whole C5 in them - they have special holes in the doors to pop the tails through.) I guess that’s not a problem, since the plane is in pieces. They’ll prolly be able to squeeze it in now.

Also, you know a you’re a geek when the checkout girl at Best Buy starts to recognize you. As I was checking out, she asked if I had their rewards zone card. I don’t, mostly because I generally don’t buy stuff in there large enough to make it worth it. I said I didn’t, and her reply was "You know, as much as you’re in here, it’d probably help you out." Personally, I don’t see once or twice a month as very often, but apparently I get noticed.

Lastly, I found another entertaining image generator in my travels - this one is Einstein at the blackboard. It’s a little different from the normal eye candy, but I got a kick out of these: