I laughed so hard I can't keep the mouse steady. The sock. Many of the best looking planes, including two of the last three years' National Champions have won with planes that were professionally covered using a sock. It really works better than just about anything I've seen. Superior to any hot-sock, mit, cotton balls and heat gun...Well, here's the story. It's a new sock. My wife bought me a pack of a dozen for Christmas. Now, I'm not sure how she'll take to me using my Christmas present this way. I've kind of started to burn up the first one, but I've got a lot more. I hope to only use a few in this process; maybe she won't notice them gone... that is until tonight when she poked her head into the shop and started to cry. Not literally but I thought she was kidding until I heard her and my daughter upstairs. Not about the sock but I am using blue instead of metallic Plum. How in the world would you figure that? She remembers from like, I don't know, 10 years ago when I was picking colors for the Jekyll, then the plane after that. What was that called? It was like a Jekyll II but with double tapered wing? It got me in the finals at the team selections in 1999 and a TOC invite. Hmmm. It was yellow and it had purple on it. Hmmm.. there was another plane that was like it under a different name. Sequel. Is that right? Let me go check. Well, I think it was a Sequel. Any way, she remembers discussing color schemes with me and I asked her what she wanted in terms of color. She said purple. Now that was like 8 years ago or something like that. How can she remember a detail like that when I can't even remember the name of the plane. She also said that was the color on the Focus from 4 years ago. It sat in my basement for a year until I dragged it out in the spring of 03 to put the gear in it and get it flying. Well, a month and a half later I won the NATS with that plane. This is a very serious issue. Blue vs Purple. I'm torn.

Camera- I'm using a really nice keychain camera. Its only 2 inches by 3 inches in size and runs off of a AAA battery. Its nice because its very convenient and its fast in terms of downloading on to the computer. If anyone has a digital camera that you would like to donate to me, mail it to me. I'll give you my address off-line. But it has to download quickly to the computer and have small file sizes so they are easy to upload to RCU.

Everything is OK now, I think. She tells me now that its ok, and she gives me permission to use blue on the plane rather than Plum. Ok, side-story complete. Now, what was that about a sock?

No report tonight. I'm still recovering (but not literally).