Thanks to my most wonderful fiancée, Christine, I’m now famous!  Well, at least famous in Philadelphia.  Among people who listen to Preston & Steve.  Particularly, those who pay really close attention to reader emails.  OK, so nobody.  But darn it, I still feel special!

Last week, Christine wrote in to Preston & Steve to “thank” them for ruining me ( Read more... )

(12:20:55 AM) Christine Cardinal: and I’m taking half of today off anyway
(12:20:57 AM) Christine Cardinal: to go galivant
(12:21:00 AM) Scott Roberts: okay : )
(12:21:06 AM) Scott Roberts: i’m glad you’re galivanting
(12:21:11 AM) Christine Cardinal: yeah?
(12:21:14 AM) Christine Cardinal: galivanting to me
(12:21:24 AM) Christine Cardinal: means ( Read more... )

After nearly a month of looking, I FINALLY found my bike shoes?  Where were they?  Of course, they were in a box that I thought I knew for sure what was in it.  I was right about what was in it, but turns out there was a pair of shoes, too.

Anyway, to celebrate the joy of my shoes, I decided to take out my road bike for her first ride since … ( Read more... )

Went for another bike ride today, and it went much better.  I still haven’t managed to find my bike shoes, so I had to take my fixie again.  As I got ready to go, I had a major flat on my front tire, but I’m lucky enough to have two road bike, I just took the front tire off of my regular bike to put on Roxie for the day.

So I’m still really, ( Read more... )

1. I’m out of shape
2. 300 ft in elevation change is a lot
3. Living at 5000 ft elevation makes breathing hard

Just got back from my first bike ride of NM.  Only about 30 minutes, but man I’m exhausted.  I need to work on this some more.  But on the bright side, it’s really beautiful riding here!

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Yep, that’s right.  I’m in New Mexico.  Albuquerque, New Mexico, to be specific.

Life has been quite busy since my last (real) post exactly one month ago today.  After taking a slight recovery from my thesis defense, my schedule picked back up with the end of my semester of teaching and final edits to the thesis.  Oh, and moving out of my office.  ( Read more... )

I intended on posting about the move to Albuquerque tonight, but I just ran out of time.  Tomorrow I will try harder.

Speaking of tomorrow, it’s my first day of work.  All day orientation Monday, then meetings with my manager and project leaders on Tuesday.  Wish me luck.

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What I’ve learned about blogging is that it’s much easier to work harder on your blog than it is to not work hard.  OK, what I really mean is this; if I wait to long between updates, then I don’t want to write them, because there’s too much to say.  So I don’t.  And then it gets worse.  Eventually, you get to the current situation, where I’ve only ( Read more... )

Here’s an interesting story that was on 60 minutes last week about the network security of our nation’s infrastructure.  Interesting for two reasons.  First, it’s just scary.  Second, it features Sandia National Labs, my future employer.

http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=5578986n&tag=contentMain;contentBody

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I know that it’s been ages since I’ve written a post here, but hey, I’ve been busy!  A lot of things have taken place recently, with even more to come in the next few months.

Right now, the overarching item on my mind is graduating.  For the past month, I’ve been working very hard to start tying up all of my loose ends and finish my last major ( Read more... )