This will be the first of my weekly posts, where I describe the previous week, and bitch about it, mostly. Expect these posts to have some 20,000 foot views, but very few 1,000’ views. I intend to make lots of little edits to this post throughout the week, so even though it is published, it may not actually be done. I expect that once the week is done, however, it will be a standard, static page, like all of the rest.

• Someone tried to back into my car over the past week. This is a story in and of itself, but I drive an expensive car, and someone in a much cheaper car stopped in the middle of the road when I honked my horn at her, and then put her car in reverse and tried to back into me. In the middle of the road. On a slope. That she had to back up to try and hit me. Good times.

• I’ve forgotten how much I love git, but I still think mercurial is better. It’s a lighter package, at least on my machines, and that is something that matters to me. It’s why we sell Webroot and not Symantec.

• Chocolatey continues to be my go-to application when I am stuck on something at work. Seriously, no matter how bad an internet connection is, I can get powershell to run, which means I can control the machine. You’d be surprised how many medical offices I have as clients that have very poor internet connection speeds. Security through painful ping times!

• Three times today (Wednesday), I had a car try to kill me. Two of those times were from one car! I shouldn’t be so melodramatic, since I was not on my motorcycle, but seriously, folks, put down your damn phone and pay attention!

• A Cessna 210 Centurion crashed nearby last week, and I forgot to mention it. The pilot was doing survey work, and the engine decided to call it a day. He crash landed almost at VT8, but not quite. Too bad, because it’s a great airplane. (Note: the pilot was fine.)

• I miss flying in real life. I like the sim well enough, but I want to be out there flying.

• Well, it’s Thursday, and I stopped by the local flight academy. I spent an hour among the Cessnas and Pipers, and it reinforces just how badly I want to get back to flying. Just being near aircraft makes my heartbeat quicken.

• It’s Saturday, and I just read that the state house has decided that they want to slip magazine restrictions into the bump stock legislation. This is not a good thing. I’m not prepared to argue for bump stocks, but I have a compact pistol with 15 round magazines, which would be made illegal by this law. I’m not in favor of this, obviously.