April 2008 marked the middle of what became a nearly
three-month "sabbatical" from aircraft building. I got a lot
of good tips from the sonex groups on Yahoo, including making
a decision on strobe lighting. Budgetting for the lighting
expense involved the usual April hair-pulling, dreaded battle
with TurboTax, which took up what little spare time I did
have. |
Another factor in the building hiatus was a major
system upgrade at my day job. I am the Unix systems
administrator at a biotech research laboratory, and I spent
the entire month of April, weekends included, working with the
software vendor to upgrade systems and migrate databases on
one of our larger laboratory information systems. Getting too
old for these marathons. Last time I worked long hours seven
days a week for an extended period was in 1979-1980. |