Rust seems all off the wings now!

Another very good practice day! Held over PADDR for close to an hour, with Keith. Almost all hood time. Did QUITE well, and an intersection hold, too!
All the rust seems knocked off, and finished off another page in the ol' logbook, too, yay!
Robin and I are hoping to get into a flying club soonish; that could help stave off the rust for less $!

Email moratorium attempt!

So it seems that many in my place of employment, and I've gotten too into this also, interpret every single email message from the absolutely most negative angle possible!

Aargh! I got into email snarls again this week, ironically from posts when I was in a good mood and just blitely trying to inform people.

So....I am going to try mightily to have an email moratorium AT LEAST for the rest of the month! My aim is to only use email if I MUST to RESPOND to someone. I will keep my own messages TOO A MINIMUM.

This will be very good discipline for me, AND a challenge!

Email is too much the main mode of communication on campus, and it is harder to reach people on the phone and F2F. But I am gonna try my dammedest!

These links help bear out the problem and the experiment!

• Flame Wars, Wired
  
• Epley et al., Univ. Chicago study
  

Super Tomatoes Now Subsiding

Truly a BUMPER CROP this year!
But now we are down to 1-4 ripe a week, quite manageable and no more mouth sores! 8-)
Huge batch of yum-o sauce in the freezer, too.

Recalling (kinesthetic) memory

When I was first reflecting upon the joy of getting aviation, and then yoga, back to the forefront of my life over the past two weeks, I thought about this reactivation of stored skills and knowledge more from the INTELLECTUAL memory side of things.

But then this weekend I've gotten back into running/walking the SC track, and realized that all 3 of these joyful, disciplined things I've finally been able to get back into are very much part of KINESTHETIC/PHYSICAL memory! Hence the post title.

It is a true joy to find one can bring back skills and knowledge and polish them up and get them shiny again! Awesome that humans can store skills for quite some time.

Yoga and running came back to me a bit more easily than I feared, as did the flying, per earlier post.

Time of course to re-vow not to let any of these skills get so stored, but keep 'em active! (Now that I'm done w/ the dang contin. appt/tenure dossier compilation, Illinois family/friends visits there and here, and getting quite sick from the stress!)

Blue Skies!

Sara T.

Pratchett's L-Space: physics and libraries intersect...

"L-Space" is discussed in several books in several different appearances of The Librarian (now an orangutan, post-magic-accident). The DiscWorld Companion summarizes the concept thusly:
"Even big collections of ordinary books distort space and time, as can readily be proved by anyone who has been around a really old-fashioned second-hand bookshop, one of those that has more staircases than storeys and those rows of shelves that end in little doors that are surely too small for a full sized human to enter."

Wow do I see this in action, AND have to avoid the tendancy myself...

"Affronted speeches of dodgy self-justification."
[Terry Pratchett, in Night Watch, p. 216.]

Pratchett gets SO many things right!!