The forcast for Tuesday morning is cloudy! Their is a quadruple transit of the moons of Saturn at 4 AM and I won't get to see it. It looks like the apparent size is going to be about 19 arc seconds, with my 40x binoculars that will be about a third the size of the moon! Damn, Damn, Damn! That would have been cool. Perhaps in California you will be ( Read more... )

Life has been interesting lately. I got Nicole a picnick basket full of snacks for her birthday and we walked around in the park. I used some white lithium grease on some machinery in my room and boy did does it still smell bad. I read a bunch in my awesome optics book about optical computers and now I must build one. I finally succeeded in making ( Read more... )

I went to a comedy club on Friday with Lauren and her friends and one of the comedians made an Irish joke about me. It kind of startled me since I don't think I look particularly Irish. Anyway, I picked out some of the songs that I listened to on my dads record player growing up. All of these have really interesting lyrics if you know much about ( Read more... )

Today was kind of surreal, last night a switch in my head just clicked and I decided to finally just do all the things I should do. This morning I got up and pushed the button to turn on my computer like I always do and the hard drive started making all sorts of scraching dieing sounds... oddly I had just wished for this to happen the night before ( Read more... )

Well, life is going ok. My research has become reasonably interesting and that is nice. I feel so busy lately cooking, researching, planning new projects, doing homework, and spending time with my girl friend. Last night I almost slept in the lab because I had a presentation today and had a lot of work to get done. At 3:30 AM I decided it would be ( Read more... )

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tm2hoxPkLiY

I like the lyrics because they are about doing science!

Wow, it is really gray here... makes me sleepy. Last night I played my fiddle with Nicole a bit, that was a lot of fun. I also ordered my Mini-Mill for lots of money... I will soon be able to make lots and lots of stuff out of aluminum, the only problem is that I should just be trying to finish up school... but, it is the natural progression of my ( Read more... )

I've been so busy lately running around, hiking, and doing things with my family. It can be a bit stressful. Since all the rooms are taken up I've been sleeping on the couch and haven't been sleeping that well. Luckily, my presents turned out well: I got my oldest sister an assortment of really dark fancy chocolates. I got her husband a book on ( Read more... )

I'm putting my boardgames in a bag to bring home! Should be awesome!

The big experiments at the port seem to have been sucessful. After not sleeping for 72 hours and working that entire time hopefully has paid off in good data that I can use for my general exam. I will look at the data next week, now I just want to relax for a while ( Read more... )