Today we went geocaching (and boy was it hot in Escondido, even at 6pm!), and managed to deposit our first ever Travel Bug - Gothica! Monitor his travels. Gothica is a cute little gargoyle keychain. Let’s see how far around the world he can travel on his quest for gothic places.

Semester #3 is just under 2 weeks away from starting and so I am in preparation mode: Scanning my textbooks, gathering my thoughts, etc. This semester is “Tools of Modern Astronomy”, covering observation techniques such as optical telescope types, radio, x-ray, CCD photography, high energy particle astronomy, etc.
In other news, my novel is progressing nicely. […]

After the first 4 days I am loving it. My bosses and colleagues are really friendly and knowledgeable people and it looks like we are all going to work great together as a team.
Mostly we are neck deep in network admin stuff - designing networks, planning our servers, talking to data centres, etc., but that […]

I’m sitting here at home in the late afternoon and it is an odd feeling. I’m not at work. I feel like I ought to be programming. The cats keep visiting me as I sit here, and I wonder why are my cats in my cube at work? Then I realise that I’m not in […]

Over the past few weeks I have gotten back to my novel, after a few months away. I spent a long while re-reading to get back into the atmosphere and swing of things, and I was also naughty and did some editing and rewriting of the earlier chapters.
I have some good ideas to carry me […]

Today we spent a delightful hour wandering around Carlsbad on a geocache hunt. The weather was perfect - overcast but warm and bright and with a nice breeze.
The cache we were looking for was Carlsbad Village Historic Walk, which consisted of a series of clues, that took us on a tour of part of Carlsbad, […]