Nice harbor...

About to leave Baltimore... I stayed here after flying from Atlanta into BWI last night. Wandered around the downtown waterfont area... ate some overpriced seafood (at least I skipped the $38 crabcakes ;). But I enjoyed the space and the water and its interplay.

Yesterday... drilling meetings in Atlanta went fine at Georgia Tech. We're putting together a proposal that I'll present at JPL in a week's time. Today... off to discuss the application of automation to mid-oceanic research drilling, then to NASA Headquarters, then to a dinner with my sweetie geekchick and her fiance nminusone...

Happy to meet...

At a dinner at an Irish pub on Capitol Hill... redhotlips, free_of_whip, dckermit, fiddletoo, squirejoe, vvalkryri and fatesfolly, the latter of which spent mutual time with me exclaiming about what a great person we both thought archway was... later, nminusone and geekchick joined us. Cathy and I then headed to a restaurant in Gallery Place for tapas.

Earlier, I'd met with the International Oceanic Drilling Program folks, who are interested in our drilling automation technology, and then caught up with KMB for two hours over coffee at a Starbucks near NASA HQS. ;-) Then Cathy and I ran into KMB and most of Space Sciences en route in Metro, after dinner... ;-).