My grades from spring semester finally came in. My final GPA for my master's degree is higher than that for my bachelor's (which earned me an honors citation).

And that's with taking a 50% overload the past two semesters.

Rock on.

Now, to defend my as-yet unwritten thesis before we move...

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It's five+ months into my book-a-month New Year's ( Read more... )

Here's how to get me to interview you ( Read more... )

The American Association of Petroleum Geologists has been catching a lot of flack lately over giving an award to Michael Crichton for a recent book of his which challenges global warming. I've always had something of a different insight into the controversy. My father was a mining engineer - equal parts geologist and civil engineer - and one of our ( Read more... )

New Mexicans are an interesting bunch.

1. They're crazy about green chile. Green chile, a spice native only to New Mexico, is sold on street corners, used as currency, and put into everything from beer to McDonald's hamburgers.

2. They're crazy about the holidays. ( For example, this is Roswell at Christmas. )

According to LJ, it's been 19 weeks since my last post, which is the longest break since I started keeping a blog. At least I've got a good excuse: I've been busy ( Read more... )

So, we've moved to Albuquerque. The trip was an adventure, and the moving still isn't quite done, but it's been worth it. The school has been great. The people have been great. There culture here is very cool and dynamic, and the area is absolutely gorgeous ( Read more... )

( So big that it needs its own cut. )

I'm an engineer. I'm all about things working - making them work, figuring out how they work, things like that.

I'm a decent engineer, which means I'm just on the cusp of knowing how to make things work and knowing what's possible to do. I have a history with this.

So, when I hear about the idea of setting up a dead badger as a server, I think ( Read more... )

As of today, the lady and I now have nine days before we leave for Albuquerque. I have five days of work left; she has four. We're starting to look at the world around us with the thought of "I'll be seeing this just a few more times, and then I'll probably never see it again." We're soaking up the trees and the grass and the flowers before we move ( Read more... )

Between my sophomore and junior years of college, I worked as a stockboy in the butcher shop at the local supermarket. One of the butchers I worked with was a young butcher, in his late twenties, and was very into the local music scene. Along with partying hard and tech-ing for a few bands, he also managed two - one being a very established local ( Read more... )