jay | weird perspectives, geocaching, waiting for lunar news

Waiting to see if our lunar lander proposal is one of the four (of 20 submitted) chosen for a more in-depth mission study over 4 weeks. If so, it might affect my availability in March, including curtailing other business tasks and travel. We're supposed to hear today...

Otherwise, I had a good weekend. Finished some yardwork and electrical work around the house on Saturday, went by C&E's party that night for awhile. Drove to the East Bay and then home and went out for coffee with

patgreene. Sunday afternoon saw

girlpurple and

smoocherie and

ocelotsden (and others whose LJ handles I don't know) at blacklight minigolf in Milpitas... weird, but fun. Can't gauge surface grains for breaks, though. Brought italian food in for dinner to a reeling and recovering House Weirdness, saw

klrmn after her return, hugged a still-shaky

dawnd, and did a meditation exercise one-on-one with

akienm that gave me a couple of useful insights. Then swung by Berkeley and saw

tenacious_snail briefly.

Then Monday... geocaching all day with my three sons and

cyan_blue! Clear day, mild spring weather, and all three boys smiled and cooperated and were genuinely excited in the chase. It was a boost just to see them all engaged in the same activity, without fussing or bored looks... that almost never happens, anymore. We found ten caches...

cyan_blue has now put me into double figures, overall ;-). She has some great photos in her journal entry from yesterday. We also made travel bugs for James and Kevin and dropped them in a cache near SFO airport.

Yesterday, the car went in the shop, lots of meetings, dealing with the resignation of a part-time team member, and waiting for the lunar news... I had a low-grade headache all day, and was slightly sniffly, but it seems to have lifted today.