It's an amazing thought that back when travel was difficult an time-consuming, people were educated and worked (primarily) where they were born until population pressure necessitated a change ( Read more... )

Had a nice weekend out-of-state at the family place in Maine. My sister had a few friends up and Andy and I headed out once he got out of work on Friday. I decided that the science fiction section of the library there needed organizing and... updating. See, as far as I can tell, it was put together by one of my uncles, probably the younger one, ( Read more... )

And now for something completely different:
What I do when I'm not at work or school (well... sort of). As per usual, once I start writing it ends up much longer than I planned, so, cuts.

( GBS )

So, if you haven't seen me in the past month - or if you happen to have seen me more online - the simple explanation is this: classes started again, Sept 6 ( Read more... )

I promised more info on the grad school thing but first, I want to whine for a bit about my car being broken into.

( whine, whine, rant )

I was reminded today that I don't really post here at all. I usually keep up with friends' posts and even occasionally comment but my own updating has been so infrequent that most of the post titles are some variation on "Yes, I really am still alive ( Read more... )

I just had an interesting interview for a position as a Lab Technician. The company is called SunEthanol (here) and is trying to develop a microbe that can take almost raw cellulose - of any type, not just corn - and ferment it into ethanol into a commercially viable producer ( Read more... )

We have an ice cream truck.

It drove right past my house.

I find this so cool you have no idea ( Read more... )

What I forgot to mention in the last post (the reason I had thought to post before I started whinging ( Read more... )

In the past week of traveling for vacation, home improvement and the beginning of moving stuff out I have ( Read more... )