Day: March 30, 2004

The squeakiness in my left ear (which is probably a better way of describing it than “like water in my ear”, since it doesn’t really feel like water but does make a sort of squeaky noise whenever I move my jaw) has not gone away. It’s only been a week since I saw the doctor (or, rather, the physician’s assistant) and started using the nasal spray she gave me, but there’s been no change. It’s not painful, and it’s good to know my ear is not infected (she diagnosed it as an eustachian tube dysfunction, but it is more than a little annoying.

The damage appraisal and check have arrived from the other insurance company, so I can finally take my car in for repairs following the accident two weeks ago. I’m bringing the car into the Honda dealership tomorrow morning — or, rather, I’m leaving it with someone from the body shop to which the dealership outsources its work. The repair work that’s needed isn’t extensive, but I’m under no illusion they’re going to have it finished and back to State College by the end of the day. Which means I may be taking the bus. The insurance company has offered to cover rental car costs, but unless my car is the shop for more than a few days, I’d like to avoid that. It opens up a lot of other potential problems, including how I get to and from the rental car lot or swap my car for the rental when I only have one driver, me.

Write a random phrase from each of the following:

Nearest book to you: The two-layer approach treats only the turbulent kinetic energy equation in the near-wall region. (“Prediction of Hybrid Fuel Regression Rate in Confined Turbulent Boundary Layer Combustion” by H. Y. Wang et al., Combustion of Energetic Materials, K. Kuo and L. De Luca, eds.) (I merit a brief sentence of my own in the book: “A special thanks to Mr. Fred Coppersmith for his great help in the English editing of numerous papers written by authors from non-English speaking countries.” Just sayin’.)

Nearest cd insert: Farscape: Music from the Original Soundtrack: “I really enjoy weaving in and around the ups and downs of the spoken word.” (The CD was a birthday present.)

Nearest piece of paper that you wrote on: “ME 516 Projects due 3/29/04 — Give to Damian to grade.” (My boss is out of the country this week, so he’s asked one of his graduate students to grade a class project. So far, only one student has handed in the assignment.)

Nearest piece that was written to you: “Fred — Vacation and sick time is now being recorded in hours instead of days.” (I don’t know why I still have this Post-It note. Three months into the new time cards, I think I’ve figured this out.)