1. My sister Maria got engaged to Eduardo in July.  They’re great people who are even better together, and I’m psyched to have Edu and his peeps joining the family.

2. If the weather holds, I’m flying with my instructor down to Hyannis this afternoon.  I’m plotting two courses; one that assumes we get cleared into Logan’s class B airspace and another that takes us around it.

3. TJIC and I are both looking forward to seeing some off-duty cops get thrown in jail for punking civie flaggers on worksites.

4. The same economic events that are (rightly or wrongly) nudging people Obama’s way in the national election may also nudge people toward Yes on Question 1 locally (repeal of MA income tax).  Setting aside the whole “they promised to bring taxes back to 5% and ignored our ballot initiative to force them to” angle, I think there’s a decent case to be made for how repealing the income tax could not only help the regional economy, but lead to higher state tax revenues over the long term.  I understand why some state employee unions are flipping out over it, but hockey stick curves aren’t just some evil myth invented to prey on teachers.  Then again, easy for me to say.  Good luck, everyone.

I get to sling more than the average tech worker’s share of English-language kung fu, and that’s fun, but sometimes I could definitely stand to know more relevant law.  Also, it’d be nice to get spec’d out for (paid) argument on a wider range of topics.

I mentioned this inclination to the missus last night, and she made a good point, which is that we’re scheduled to start creating some additional humans over the next couple years…and that’s cool…

I sort of took that at face value, and didn’t draw any further conclusions, but the subtext (probably the text, as she’s not one to beat around the bush) was that I should be home in the evenings instead of at night school for four years, and I should make the most of my current professional trajectory.

On the other hand, I can do my current job from home.  Also, four years of night school and $100k or so sounds (to me) like a really small price to pay to turn a software/proto-business outlook into a software/proto-business/legal outlook.  Like, it’s harder to imagine that guy not affording a private aircraft that’ll do 200 knots cruise someday, or getting pwned by a perfect storm of weird tech market forces.

The Suffolk website says that to apply for Fall of ‘09, one should take the LSAT no later than February.  I’m just saying, that’s what the website says.