Our youngest daughter seems to have decided she is ( Read more... )

Visas have arrived!

Hey, forget about the Tour de France. Forget about all those baseball games. Golf? Pshah.

With my first place from Colorado, I needed approximately a fifth place today to get on the team...

But instead...

I won.

I am now the top qualifier for the team that goes to Moscow, and I have a nifty shirt that says "National Champion" across the front ( Read more... )

My hands and feet swelled up a lot on the airplane, especially my left hand, and on that hand, especially my ring finger, which also turned purplish ( Read more... )

I'm still working on writing up my notes from the trip. It was an unbelievable amount of information, and I need to process it if I am to maintain a reasonable fraction of it ( Read more... )

... for the moment ( Read more... )

We've been in multiple quarries, farms, and roadcuts, looking at the results of having a carbonate bank shoved up and west by plate tectonics. This place is almost a munged up as California is. It just happened longer ago, and was by thrusting instead of by grinding ( Read more... )

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Periodically broadcast over the loudspeakers at the Houston Airport ( Read more... )

I highly recommend the Hilton Garden Hotels, or at least the one in Spring, TX ( Read more... )