Just an appraisal of what I'm up to:

I'll be in NYC this weekend, eating spiders and petting tigers. Back to NM for the following week, then I'm off to Moscow for a week starting on the 25th. I was going to go mountaineering this past weekend but terrible weather combined with an injured wrist (thx, handball) nixed that.

The dash trim panels for the Tacoma are all stacked in the back of the truck, pending modifications. In the meantime, the interior of the truck looks like something out of Road Warrior.

I'm considering building a collapsable medium wave edge-wound tuned loop antenna for some DXing and/or contesting. This might qualify me for a new strata of nerdiness, though not yet at the level of my roommate, who has a ham operator license plate.

Speaking of which, should I get vanity plates for the taco? Submit your proposals here. NM plates allow 7 alphanumeric characters + spaces, and you can put a little "zia dot" in the place of one if you want (not sure if they allow multiple dots). Parker already has 3[zia]14159, so that one is out. Dan, I'm counting on your rapier wit here.

Ideas already submitted:

MOUSER [yawn; the true vanity plate]
NOTGREG [my group leader has a more-or-less identical truck w/ cap]