As Sarah put it, "how can you have a hangover without getting drunk?" Over the course of the weekend, the Feighs filled us with wine, cocktails, and other yummy things... and I never got drunk, but I was totally hungover anyway.

A really busy day at work yesterday made it even worse. So, last night I got home, took the dogs for a quick walk, did some laundry, made myself a yummy dinner and went to sleep before 9 p.m.

It was awesome. I don't think I moved, dreamed or anything until my alarm went off at 6 a.m.

Byron on the other hand was up very late in his first full session in teh 747-200 simulator. It is such a cool airplane. He makes me laugh describing his session in an e-mail as he embarks onto a schedule of sleeping away most of the day since his sim sessions are scheduled late at night:

First night in the sim was cool.. this thing is very heavy and you have to lead it but its still an airplane, and you have to fly it. Funny thing is the mentality over here is if it has a digital readout don't trust it. Only mechanical things will do.

Also, if you use the autopilot you either can't fly or you are a p***y. I am neither. Raw data is no problem. Anyways, it was cool. We got done about 2.

This thing is an animal, if the sim flies anything like the plane.

Max N1 (fan speed) is 118.5%.

It does 375 knots indicated at 10,000 feet at 85%. Its all you can do to keep the overspeed from going off all the time.

Horsepower, baby. Get you some.

This article annoys me because it says that single parents (women) cost the state too much money in welfare, etc. The only solution it proposes is to just get all these ladies married off - so their husbands can provide them with welfare rather than the state. And also makes them dependent on men who might be controlling or abusive but also their only source of income. Why isn't the solution affordable day care, family friend work policies (say paid maternity leave, rather than temporary poverty through unpaid leave or no leave at all in companies with less than 50 employees), and educational encouragement for women so they can get well paid professional jobs (or at least enter the better-paid vocational job - mechanics rather than housekeepers, for instance.)?