Happy May Day!

[jay]

I'm back home again, arriving late last night after seeing Nancy enroute in Minneapolis. She's on one of the currently-fashionable low-carb diets (South Beach?) so dinner was at a steakhouse... despite rush-hour there, and a weeks' frustrations, just being with her helped me unwind and feel renewed. It's great when it works!

And other good news... my dad is slowly recuperating from his lung biopsy, and was moved yesterday from the ICU to a regular hospital room. :)

This week, I've worked on a proposal to take our drilling automation to field tests in 2006-08 in Siberia and the Antarctic. Dry-drilling without lubricants is Mars-analog, but is also aseptic if precautions are taken... this is good for coring samples containing several-million-year-old frozen microbes in permafrost layers in those regions.

I've also done something this week that I hadn't in two years... read a novel in just a few days (a Harry Turtledove alt-history novel). I'm just too busy, or too-online, to slow down and find time for pleasure reading. Prior to this week, I'd read a total of 1.5 books in 2004 to date...

This weekend... no plans, other than p3aches's graduation BBQ tomorrow and taking Kevin to his Little League games and invited birthday parties. The kid has a more-active social life at age 7 than I do! Maybe this would be a good weekend for kitchen-renovation, or dropping off the old dishwasher at Dreamland....

Comments

[p3aches.livejournal.com]

welcome home. Hugs T

[brian1789.livejournal.com]

Thanks, and congratulations on your M.S.!

[sinboy.livejournal.com]

Hey, I'd be happy to volunteer as a field hand/cooks assistant/ cook/ whatever for either Antarctica or Siberia.

Anyway, glad to have you back. The weekend is kinda booked up. Would it be possible to drop it off some time next week?

[brian1789.livejournal.com]

If we get awarded that project, maybe... although by then you guys may be in Australia.

patgreene could drop it off during the week sometime if there are going to be two people there to lift it into the house (Pat has a slowly-healing back injury). It might even be an excuse for lunch...

[sinboy.livejournal.com]

Mik and I will be home on monday. I think that might work best.

[brian1789.livejournal.com]

Actually, Pat came down with a cold. So I'm thinking of dropping it on Thursday, when I'll be passing by myself?

[sinboy.livejournal.com]

Sadly, I too have a cold or something nasty today. I won't be much use. Perhaps tomorrow?

[brian1789.livejournal.com]

BTW, I forwarded your contact info again to Pascal (his laptop had disk-crashed and he had lost files and old email), on his request. He's waiting until summer funding is in place before interviewing prospective staff -- maybe mid-May.