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Ah, the joys of uninterrupted sleep. I remember them fondly! And the idea of a nap also doesn’t sound too bad. I’ve just tried a couple of minutes to remember when the last time was that I actually had a nap, but other than falling asleep while trying to put my kids to bed, I can’t come up with any instance in the last few months. Well, some day, some day!
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The only thing more annoying than an online test is a badly designed or buggy online test, where the website doesn’t recognize a correct answer as correct, freezes half an hour in, or crashes when you hit the final submit button. Fortunately, as a freelancer, I don’t have to deal with this a lot, but oh, the horror stories that circle the internet! I’m sure many of you have experienced something like that at one point or other.
Wait! I just thought of something even worse than an bad online test! My online income tax form! On a technical level it works flawlessly, but 95% of it are questions referring to some obscure paragraphs of various tax codes that I have no idea about. I know that 90% of those don’t apply to me, but the trick is to know which ones.
It is that time of the year again! Oshkosh Air Venture is in full swing and of course Chuck wants a piece of that action as well. Even though Chuck never misses Oshkosh, we have to sit this one out again. I wonder if I will ever be able to find a job that will make it easy for me to go to Oshkosh. This year, we have been so busy flying, that even the owners of the company had their request to go to Oshkosh denied by the chief pilot (and they usually never miss OSH just like Chuck). Everything is out flying right now. On the bright side, being out flying should make for new stories. We’ll see what shakes out from this fire season.
Please post stories and photos from OSH if you are lucky enough to go this summer. We’d really enjoy seeing what is going on there.
Mike has even more glider time logged than Chuck, but not because of the same reason, but because he started out with motor gliders. I think I have about an accumulated hour of glider time as a passenger, and a total of maybe 2 minutes of time with radio controlled gilders. The latter was after spending a whole summer building one and is probably the reason why I quit that hobby and bought myself a guitar instead. Apparently, talents aren’t distributed equally.
Ah, the great wisdoms one can impart on little kids! Sometimes it makes you feel smart, because you know so much more about the world, but more often than not they can bring you to the point of despair and frustration, because you start out answering a simple question (“How does the water know to flow into the drain?”), and then the follow up series of “why”s lead you towards trying to explain gravity and dark matter. I think there’s a Louis CK bit about that.
Anyway, today’s strip reminded me of some manly wisdom I recently tried to pass on to my son, about how to check the direction of the wind before peeing somewhere outside. We’re still working on that concept though. Once we mastered that, we’ll move to the next level of not dropping your pants all the way down to the ankles, but one step at a time!
I like dreaming. It’s like watching weird movies. Very rarely do I have nightmares but also very rarely explicitly pleasant dreams from which I don’t want to wake up from. Most often it’s something exciting and movie-like where I’m never sure if I myself am the protagonist or if I’m watching. There’s usually some problem that I can’t seem to solve.
What’s weird is that there are a few recurring places, mostly houses and city areas that don’t exist in reality, at least not that I know of, but that keep popping up in my dreams. I also sometimes end up in Japan (where I used to live for a couple of years), or am drafted into the army again. Those dreams are clearly from a first person perspective. And just a couple of days ago, our new neighbors built a fence right through our yard! Man, was I pissed when I woke up.
Anyway, what’s funny is that (unlike Chuck) I can’t remember ever dreaming about my work. I wonder if that says something about a person and if, then what?
I’m sure many of you can relate to Jason here. I know I can, and I’m not even a pilot! But I sure know the feeling of concentrating so hard on something that at some point I start feeling the stitches and realize I probably stopped breathing a minute ago. Another, and actually more relevant risk for me is to concentrate on something work-related on the computer so intensely (usually when coding, not so much when drawing) that I forget to drink. I have a couple of bottles of mineral water besides my desk for emergency purposes, haha!
I guess we’ve all had days like poor Julio here. Some days it would be better to just stay in bed. The problem is that one can identify those days only in hindsight. The logical conclusion would be to just stay in bed more often, thus reducing the risk of days like these! Isn’t logic a great thing? I think I’m onto something here!
I have never worn night vision goggles. Now that I think of it, that should be on my bucket list, if I had one. It feels like that’s one of those things I would buy if I had the money, just because they’re awesome, and then they’d lie around like my regular binoculars. They’re awesome too (albeit on a lower and more affordable level), but I think I only ever really needed them once, to check on my roof tiles from the opposite side of the street after a storm. But, hey! Once is better than nothing! I’m sure NVGs would be handy to … uh, hunt for slugs in the garden at night or something. Ah, the unchallenging life of suburbia …
Can you guess which TV show I was watching when I had the idea for this strip? Oh, well, I guess I gave that away in the second panel. But since I mention the 21st century: Isn’t it awesome when you watch a show or movie that is set in the future, but the “future” is the year 1990 or 2012 or something? It’s really entertaining to compare futuristic visions from the past to current reality, and I wonder what the real world will look like when our time catches up with the Star Trek timeline. Probably as disappointing as the lack of flying cars and hover boards when we reached the year 2015. On the other hand it’s comforting to know that all the postulated apocalypses haven’t materialized either, so I guess we’ve got that going for us.
