Laura went to Wal-Mart to pick up a fan for us today. A lot of the time at night, it’s not hot enough to warrant air conditioning but it’s still a bit warmer than is comfortable for sleeping. We figured a fan will help.
As I understand it, Laura’s standing in front of the big shelf [...]

I was working in the fumehood this evening and some guy walked through, looking lost. This isn’t uncommon: We often have people walking around the lab that I don’t recognize. There are visitor badges, but the only person I’ve ever seen wear one was me, when I first toured the lab during my interview. When [...]

Tonight I attended a local networking event for alumni of my university. They held it at the nearby Summerhill Pyramid Winery and when I arrived I joined the tour just in time to enter the pyramid.
It was here that we all learned how the owner believes the pyramid’s supernatural powers help his wines turn out [...]

Mario Kart Wii came out today and I found myself with about twelve others at Wal-Mart when they opened at 8am this morning. After 10 minutes of unsuccessfully scouring the electronics department, an employee finally came to see what we all wanted. She started by looking in the glass case, where we already knew it [...]

I was married. No one I know. Some brunette, she was pretty cute. I also had two kids, both boys. We were arriving home in our navy blue minivan, having just returned from a trip somewhere. The van was packed with stuff we needed to unload so maybe we were camping or picnicking, I don’t [...]

Tonight was the Laura’s company bowling night and she got me to go on the promise of bowling and pizza.
As it turned out, the pizza was unfortunate. There was nothing vegetarian for Laura to eat and the meat-ridden pizza was weird. It was moderately okay pizza but each different kind (Hawaiian, Greek, House etc.) had [...]

…from my sister-in-law, Karlene, regarding the new job:
How exciting! I am teaching a unit on the Earth’s crust and we just finished a part about rocks and minerals. My students were wondering how companies look for and get minerals out of rocks. Now I can tell them about your job. All [...]

The Shaw guy came today to fix our phone. It worked to call people, but it wasn’t correctly connected to the buzzer system downstairs so no one could call up to us for us to let them in. No fun.
So Shaw sent a guy. He was late, but really great and after he left, I [...]

Our giant bed arrived today.

Laura may have to high-jump up to get on it, but it sure is comfortable.

I thought I’d be helpful this afternoon and wash Laura’s clothes from painting. I also threw in a couple rags with them but it seems the rags were very… ragged and came apart in the wash…

…leaving little [...]

Drove Laura to the airport this afternoon. It was expected to be the busiest travel day of the year and while the arrivals side of the airport was busy, the departures was completely vacant. We had some lunch at the airport restaurant and then Laura went through security without a line or anyone else in [...]