Anyone who knew me in college will appreciate...
... The avalanche of books on my newly assembled desk and the associated mess....
A welcome sight at the end of a long trip
My whole life I have felt a special affinity (among airports) for Dulles airport... Probably because after san francisco, it was always the airport most closely identified with "home", even when my family left California and "home" ceased to exist...
Flights to and from Dulles led me to have my own mileage plus number at the age of 10, among other things...
And led me to early self-sufficiency in world travel... I will never forget sitting in the bathroom here at Dulles having been dropped off by my mom, panicking about flying to Europe for the first time, alone, at age 14... And the sense of relief and accomplishment when I returned and was met by my dad at the international arrivals, walking through those huge gray double doors with a group of guys wearing turbans. (My dad was thrilled!)
It seems somehow fitting that I wrap up a totally insane year of travel, paper-writing, politicking, and proposal-writing boarding a flight from here back to Denver, which is starting to feel a lot like "home".
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New countertop configuration at farm
Now with 40% more counter, and broken electric stove removed and put out to pasture.
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I left my heart in San francisco
About to head out after an extremely productive 3 days at AGU. I got good feedback and support for my Enceladus work and had really useful discussions about the ice-- ice impact stuff.
The icing on the cake was a dinner last night with big mac and our ice physics buddies. We ate Italian food and talked about materials science for 3 hours. All of my reading has really paid off, because this time I understood a lot more of what was discussed.
Heaven!
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It's time to get over being sick
I've got myself wired in here in bed with iPhone, MacBook, electric blanket, checking email on the iPhone while waiting for MacBookPro to parse my iTunes library and taking phone calls and txt messages from various friends.
I'm starting to feel like Lt. Barclay in that episode of ST:TNG ("The N'th Degree") where his brain is sped up and he builds some kind of laser device in the holodeck so that the ship's comptuer can read his thoughts:
http://www.durfee.net/startrek/images/TNG193.jpg
It's good that there's a scientific meeting next week to shock me out of "flu world" and back into "reality". I am a little worried about becoming re-sickened during the conference but I'll be only blocks away from an Apple store where the needed parts for another Barclay interface could be purchased if necessary.
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Happy happy joy joy
postscript -- The Big Chief's response to seeing me in Mac Heaven (surrounded by 10-grand in Apple products including the G5, the MacBook, the iPhone and 2 shuffles): "Oh, my God. Do you feel sufficiently loved? Do you have enough large shiny Macintosh screens now?"
to which I really wanted to respond, "You could be loved too if you accepted Jesus Steve Jobs as your lord and savior in this holiday season"
however, I just smiled and said, "Yes"
(for redemption, insert your credit card into the CD-ROM drive... now...)
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The one good thing about the flu
... Is that the incessant nattering in my brain, like "what section of the paper are u going to write today??" has been temporarily disabled... And my world reduced to this...
It's also quite nice to have the iPhone to keep me company. :)
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NASA images of the day
I have to admit to liking NASA's Image of the Day site.
This is a recent fave:
I often forget that there are super-cool things like shuttle launches, Hubble fixes, etc. going on while we're all sitting around typing e-mails and watching reruns of "House"
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