It's funny, not long after Dan mentions something going boom at Texas City, I receive word from AIChE that BP just donated $4000 to my young engineers drunken hoe-down, er, mixer for the National Conference.

Hmmmm, life's interesting when you have the right connections...

Weelll, I'm back and posting. I thought I'd give a bit of an update with me since I've been kinda out of touch with everyone ( Read more... )

Hey folks,

Been kinda out of the loop lately, sorry about that. I have been wanting to post some stuff up about the epic Alabama/New York trip, (if you would like to know what happened in NY just check out 
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Hey Rach, check this out.

After a bone marrow transplant at age 8, Rachel Daly now is a healthy college student, celebrating her future, she told fellow survivors ( Read more... )

Lots going on in the life of Bastion and not enough time and energy to put it down into words. May be in a few weeks after my trip to 'Bama and NY I'll post up some wackiness of Orlando and things with AIChE.

Right now, though, I read something today that got me thinking, how did we let politics get this bad? Actually, a better question would be ( Read more... )

You folks should read magical_elf journal more often. ;p

So many changes, so little time. Ah well, let's get this update started ( Read more... )

Not really much of a post. Here's a very well done animation (as well as explanation) of what events occurred to cause the explosion in BP Texas City back in March. I used to have an aerial photo of the unit right after the explosion showing just how big an area was destroyed, but that was on my computer up in Minnesota. Anywho, check it and let ( Read more... )

Geez, it's been forever folks and I'm sorry for the lack of activity, but now that I finally have a break from this job I'm on, it's time to give this journal meaning ( Read more... )

Here's an alternative to get yourself north and avoid some of the mess on 290 and 45. I was just out earlier (about 2:30am) and Hwy 249 was relatively empty. For the sake of my good friends, if you want to take advantage of this I suggest getting yourself a really good Texas keymap of the entire state and use the Farm Roads ( Read more... )