Spent the night in Milwaukee last night because the Kelley family, my mom's side, was having a get together. Almost everyone was there, I think only one of my first cousins once removed was MIA. Anyway, got to talking with my aunt's significant other about London. He's spent some time there and seemed anxious to talk. It wasn't until he ( Read more... )

I'm kinda drunk. drove back to illiois tonight and made chili, following my moms recipe. turned out pretty good. got bored went to bar and started drinkin jameson on the rocks. text messages with friends revieled goings on in town tonight. andy showed up at my door, after i had made it home and started learning about the apolcalypse on the ( Read more... )

This guy is using the beamline tonight. He's a postdoc in the imaging group that wanted to learn how to do our technique. Somehow he fanagled some time on the schedule and also managed to talk my boss into giving him our samples! That's the bit that bothers me. He's not brought anything to this "collaboration". He's not interested in using my ( Read more... )

It occured to me tonight that it's a good thing to have more than one martini glass in the freezer. It gives you the ability to rotate through them. It's great, you always have a cold glass for your next drink.
This is from back before I realized this. freezer I fear i'm becoming something of a republican. the democrats just look like such ( Read more... )

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Spent a couple of weeks in London visiting the university that I now work for. It was an experience. Luckily I have a friend from the UofI climbing club that just took a job there this summer. We hung out a lot. Pictures I've begun the quest. The quest for the perfect martini. Three revisions into it now and I think things are improving. ( Read more... )

My dad told me this story. Shortly before my step mom Nelda died she awoke one day with a smile and said something like "He was laughing at us." My dad asked her who was and she said "RJ in Ice Lake." My dad immediately knew the reference, she must have been dreaming. About eighteen years ago we were on a backpacking trip to a beautiful piece ( Read more... )

I'm heading to Colorado on Friday. About two weeks of relaxation before I head to London to visit my boss for two weeks. I don't know what to expect there. Probably lots of work. I'm getting the impression that he is looking to get some computers set up. I am going to meet his new grad student. Probably hang out with Curtis for a bit. Curtis ( Read more... )

blended and strained cactus pears with shochu are worth revisiting.

Got lucky. The user at our beamline seemed they were confident enough to let my take off. things aren't going well for them.. it's really a shame, because of the last few visitors we've had they are by far the most likely to have a good result. it's the fault of the other station. they have control of the source and it's in a state that is bad ( Read more... )