jay | they're on their way home...

I'm back from dropping

dawnd and my beloved

patgreene at Sevilla train station. Returning here in time to help the rest of my team finish last-minute packing and then send them off... JO, DN are going overnight with SS to Faro, Portugal. So this morning I led and was part of a group of eight on a successful project -- now I'm figuratively here alone as a lab assistant/sysadmin for the next week. Lonely, now. Seeing Pat off was very hard... I wish we'd had more one-on-one time on this trip.

And I wish they'd all waved. And no cuddles or hugs for another 10 days or so. Being left is always harder, IMO, than leaving (wry grin). So I coped by getting a chocolate croissant, and driving back very fast (well, 170) with the CD player turned way up. :)

Anyway, back to work... I need to brush up on this years' core spectral analysis procedures and try to put the server in the local router's DMZ...

Oh, yeah, and I got barbered in Seville. (grin).

Pat, Dawn and Sarah in Seville station...

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If the rest of the team is leaving, why do you get to stay for another week and a half? I'm sure you must've mentioned it earlier, but I don't remember the details.

Because as little as my sysadmin skills are (compared to

sarahh's, say) they're still more than anyone else left here. So I'm waiting to play tag-team with HC next week. And given my dual role on the science team, I'll shift gears and help process cores.

Although right now, "get to stay" is rather mixed... I'm a bit homesick.

The joys of being the boss...

Being responsible, flexible, covering the gaps and never getting thanked ;). Yep...

Unless you care to, um, join me? (grin)

Oh, yeah, and I got barbered in Seville. (grin).

LOL!

Almost a buzzcut, actually... the guys back at the lab here were shocked ;).

This might mean that your hair *is* shorter than mine (mine is long enough that the scalp isn't visible...I'm about half way between haircuts).

About 1/4" all around, scalp is visible. It should have grown back out by the time I get home...

Lots of hugs Brian. T

Thanks :)

(hugs) though I know that virtual ones aren't the same.

And I am hoping that 170 was KPH, because otherwise I'd be concerned about you actually making it *back* here for non-virtual hugs.

(those of us "at home" miss you, too.)

(hug) and it was merely 170 KPH... maybe 105 mph. Singing loudly along to GBS and Bon Jovi...

you can laugh at me, but I had to do the math starting from "a 5 K is 3.1 miles".

I have only once driven over 100 MPH. In a brand-new, borrowed turbo-charged sports car. While passing a cop in order to change lanes and exit.

My fastest sustained driving is 225 kph, done over periods of time in Germany in 1995 (was trying to cover Bavaria in one day)... I may have hit 235-240 briefly (this was in a rented BMW 740i ;).

This would explain why you want to be an astronaut and I want to be a housecat.

I'd really appreciate it if you came back in one piece. Please drive slower. I can not handle any more deaths of folks I love this yr. more hugs t

Cars and roads here can handle faster highway speeds... my Opel runs fine at 100 mph. But thanks for the thought.

Indeed, not only can the cars and roads handle faster speeds there, but the drivers there demand them as well. They honk and tailgate if you're so rude as to drive only 20kph over the speed limit.

Which doesn't mean I wasn't tweaky when Brian was at the wheel at those speeds, too. ;^)

they're on their way home...

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