Midlife Sooner

Cold Rainy and KU is winning the big 12 north

It is monday, I am back at the office after a chaotic but fulfilling weekend with my family. We went garage saleing on Saturday, G.S. is different for me with a family, usually I drive and sit with kids while Angie checks out the boring sales (clothes etc). We did manage to pick up another small bike for the boys, this one is a lot lighter than the one he has we got it for 3$......nice. We took it and the trailer to the lake to ride. The trailer hitch didn't work real well, Judah screamed most of the time. My tire went flat, but other than that it was a beautiful day, my beautiful wife was there with me and we went out to eat at this really cool rib joint out in the country. We gave Zeke his first full can of 7 up, we won't be doing that again anytime soon. The booth we were sitting in was not enough to hold him in! Good eating though, so any faily of friends that come to visit we have a new joint to take you to.
I went riding on Sunday while te boy slept. The trails were a little better than last time but still not like they were before the rains. I did manage to crash and get a big goose egg on my knee. and about 3/4 ways through my back tire went flat so I had to push/jog with it to get back in time for church. still a good workout. Need to buy a pump.
There is about a 5-10% chance we might try the X prize and send a rover to the moon. if that does happen I hope to graduate first and use that as a post doctorate topic. Maybe then I could get hired later on. I only mention it cause it is a cool thought, my prof has bee trying to get money for the last 10 years to do it, the google X prize has kind of gotten the alumni excited a little more, but there are still some miracles that need to happen.
the machine is going well, finally. I am programming Labview for PID control and data collection. I think this week I should be moving all this over to George street lab and putting the whole machine together. I will have to buy some dirt soon to test on and some rocks! red ones.

posted by Flippo @ 6:24 AM