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So passes yet another month; ever feel like you’re just along for the ride?

My foot/ankle/useless stupid appendage is still not completely better after another doctor visit and it better hurry up, because softball starts again at the end of August. My visit to DC went about as well as it could, except for the lack of sleep. It flew by in the sense that I didn’t really get to see anyone outside of family, but sometimes that’s just the way it is. Work has been somewhat better, the big rush to complete one project is obviously now over, but now there’s the new rush to get things rolling on the next project. Oh, and that next project, I have been graced with the status of technical lead or lead engineer, whatever you want to call it. Our program management lead/my old supervisor (re-org time!) informed me of this decision right before the DC trip and I was a both surprised and anxious. Surprised because I had yet to be the lead of a major task, much less a large project, and anxious because, well, you want to talk about learning shit on the fly and on the job training, this will be it. I’m optimistic though and have lots of help, but it’s going to be a big challenge and unfortunately, some long days are ahead.

This past week Tracy was in town, making a stop on her cross country, school visiting, site seeing tour, which was awesome because I hadn’t seen her in, well, years, sadly enough. It was a good combination of catching up and exploring Tucson, which kind of reminded of two contrasting things. First, how much this place has grown on me whereas I used to just think it’d be super short term and second, how much I miss some of my old, long time friends that, even though we may not be in touch that much, can never, ever be replaced. We went to some of my favorite places to eat in Tucson, toured Mount Lemmon, and Tracy even came out to an autocross. I did not run, even with a couple co-drive offers I just honestly wasn’t feeling like it given the car situation, and I got to relax after running registration and took some photos. Hopefully Tracy can stop in again on her way back around this area – drive safe!

As for the car, the trans is in Maryland and the parts bill is already rising. Ugh. I don’t even want to discuss it honestly. There’s no complete cost estimate yet and no estimate for when it’ll be back on the road. Neither of much are encouraging to me.