Things I like alot about San Diego include this cool little annual Imperial beach event -- a dog surfing contest ( Read more... )

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Things I like alot about San Diego include this cool little annual Imperial beach event -- a dog surfing contest! 
seriously, dogs of all shapes and sizes were out riding the waves, and all dressed up in shades, board shorts, etc. 
I thought the best one was when 2 big black labs surfed tandem all the way into the beach...they didn't win ( Read more... )

First, it took *ages* to get my new work laptops....and so far I'm not thrilled with Business Vista, but anyway, it's been MONTHS and no one has been able to help me install SAS on it, so it's been sorta useless to me when I want to work on analysis while on the road... 
well tonight,  there's been a breakthrough -- I *finally* found info on how to ( Read more... )

a few photos to go with the Italy recap.....

St. Mark’s Square, as the sun was coming up! Notice how empty it is…that was cool (didn’t last long though; cruise ships docked)

http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a143/_t_bone/DSC07475.jpg

We are on the rooftop of the cathedral in Milan! Check out those flying buttresses!

http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/ ( Read more... )

By the end of this week, I'll have my first Academic Year under my belt!! WooHoo!!
And I'll be on my way to Italy for a nice 2 weeklong vacation -- YAHOO! =)

 "Sorry, you're too fat to eat here” A Mississippi state lawmaker wants to ban restaurants from serving food to obese customers.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22997073/from/ET/

My student sent me this link -- and they say all the crazy laws get proposed in California!!

I was surprised that not many people I know in SD voted on Super Tuesday. I've been a ( Read more... )

Sometime tomorrow a team of highly trained canines is coming to sniff out my apt -- supposedly they are looking for "bed bugs" which Mike thinks is code for drugs.

Tonight is the school holiday drop-by party, and tomorrow is my last class of the semester.  It's crazy busy with the end of semester crunch stuff, and tons more mtgs than normal. but next week is the final (I better finish writing that!), then after grading those I'll have 1 semester under my belt! Wohoo! And no teaching next semester or summer ( Read more... )

I played hooky from work this afternoon while my dad's cruise ship was docked here to go to lunch (sushi) and then we walked around La Jolla Cove to look at the harbor seals. Saw some cool pelicans and a snowy egrit too ( Read more... )

I played hooky from work this afternoon while my dad's cruise ship was docked here to go to lunch (sushi) and then we walked around La Jolla Cove to look at the harbor seals. Saw some cool pelicans and a snowy egrit too ( Read more... )