alexpgp | Is it that time again?

I spent a couple of hours this morning fiddling with the garage door, while Shiloh ran around her domain, emitting short barks from time to time and eating snow.

It turned out the hinge holding together the bottom two panels on one side of the garage door sheared a bolt, most likely because the bottom panel has warped. So I spent some time in a near-freezing garage looking for suitable hardware to effect a repair, and came up short.

I took care of the hardware deficiency with a trip to the hardware store and managed to get the door closed by shoring up the bottom panel so that its warp wasn't so pronounced. Given this state of affairs, I'm afraid the car is going to stay outside until I find a solution for the warped door panel.

I managed to fix the door without injury - those panels are heavy and you do not want one of them to drop down and hit you - but managed to slam a filing cabinet drawer on one of my fingers. The thing still smarts (and is starting to look ugly).

The plate for 2009 is starting to accumulate work. I've already got two documents to translate and received a call yesterday, while driving home, asking if I was interested in working a meeting in Moscow later on in January. I have no objection, but wonder what will happen after the first of the year, when some folks higher up on the decision-making ladder get involved in staffing the meeting.

Cheers...