Wednesday, April 30, 2008

Man meal


So my small accountability group got together to eat. We had some major cow meat to eat. It was a great time, one which my colon is still working to get over! Tonight we are going to the OU baseball game and I will be taking Zeke to enjoy some cheap hotdogs. 

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Tuesday, April 29, 2008

globes



Here is another cool little item I would like to have. This is on display at the meteorological building at OU. It had four projectors placed around it to show whatever they wanted. The globe was cool, they also did a night one that was neat.  I would like to have one to spot all the places live that visit my blog.... pretty much Douglass KS and St Louis (sister). It would be cool to have a whole solar system like this in a big room. Maybe someday! 
I have recently gotten back my affinity for the british sci fi show "Dr Who" man that is entertainment! 

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Monday, April 28, 2008

backwater science



Here are some pictures from the little unknown Kansas science treasure, the Hutchinson Cosmosphere. If you grew up anywhere near this place you where made to go yearly. Coming back though, especially after studying this material, it is a pretty impressive place. The SR-71 blackbird hanging at a angle is always an emotional experience. Next to it is a AirForce trainer hanging as well. 
Also they have a Lunokhod (made by the same company that made the real ones) The Lunokhod is a Russian Moon rover that was sent in 1970 and another in 1971. The thing is the size of a VW bug and looks alot like a toilet bowl. The Hutch cosmosphere also has the odyssey command module that was famous because of the Apollo 13 mission. People here that care about such things are shocked to learn that such treasures are in Kansas. Maybe I will drag them there sometime.  

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Monday, April 21, 2008

old pics


Here is Judah and Zeke with Nan Nan (one of our Chinese neighbors) carving out pumpkins last October, seems like a different lifetime ago. The other picture is Zeke and I playing with the camera feature on my computer, Zeke looks a little like jay leno and I look like that guy from the Who. Man that is big nose. I bet a guy with that size of nose could really smell well, and look at all the room in that nostril! That is the size of two or three fingers!

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Friday, April 18, 2008

ahhhh!!

I thought that this picture was funny, I am not sure what my brother was so freaked out about in this picture, maybe there was something in my beautiful wife's hair that scared him? This was at my brothers wedding reception a couple months ago.

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Thursday, April 17, 2008

Out for a blog

Still here in Oklahoma, been a long time since I blogged. Here is an update.

-not graduated
-have hair
-not riding much
-2 kids, same kids
-1 wife, same wife
-thinking of taking of cattle ranching, once I get past my hatred of cows. 
-the SWEET testing apparatus is working and testing, still got a lot to do


I was in a grad student poster session a couple weeks ago and got second, I was all excited for 2 weeks cause I thought I was invited to a luncheon and maybe inline for some cash reward. well the day of the lunch I got an email saying that it was only for the 1st place winners (as opposed to us losers) and that my certificate was in the mail (I am now contemplating placing it in the trash) ... no money... no free lunch. Maybe I should have my own lunch and give myself some money. I could come up with a nice speech also. 
Right now I am in lab babysitting, I should be working on the project that they are working so that I could be of better use to them. All I can think is "when are they going home for the summer?" I didn't think I was so bitter...... must have been wrong about that. my present mood could be affected by my throbbing leg that I smacked on my bike peddle doing a sweet jump, my whole shin bone is sore. 
I just challenged the machine shop director and his assistant to a summer long tournament of washers. Washers is a poor mans horse shoe game, except without  the big holes in the ground that OU landscaping would not appreciate. I have never played washers, but I think it would be a good lunch time affair this summer.... when all the pesky students are gone. 

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