Research

Two Thursdays ago, I went in to meet with my advisor about a journal paper we're finishing up, and she says to me, "let's split this into a conference paper and a journal paper. There's a conference we should publish in, the deadline's already been extended and it's due Monday"

so rather than being able to take a long weekend right before the semester, I spent a bunch (but not all, fortunately) of it making edits. We got it in on time and then they immediately extended the deadline again. Ain't that just the way.

Anyhow, the journal version should be in soon too which I am jazzed about as it's hung around for FAR too long. I'm a bit frustrated now with the quality of some of the work I did for it, but most of that happened while I was an undergrad and let's just say I've learned a thing or two since then! At least now I have ideas for more work in that vein.

Cars

Friday my metamour's car got stuck in the muddy part of our driveway, so Saturday I pulled it out with one of these

using the truck as a dead anchor. Then Sunday my wife came home with it on a tow truck. It was very low on coolant but after a bit of filling and burping it seems to be doing alright. No immediate signs of a blown head gasket so I suspect a small leak instead.

Same time I found a fuel leak on the truck that I think I fixed with a new hose clamp. I also recently tried to start it while it was on because I was not entirely awake yet and chipped a tooth on the starter or ring gear. Hopefully it's on the starter because I do not want to do a ring gear laying in the cold wet mud.