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langs_place and used it to cross a lake. On the other side of the lake, we relaxed in a spa and swimming pool.
HIGHLIGHT: On Wednesday, there was a very interesting colloquium on the Columbia Space Shuttle accident given by Doug Osheroff, a 1996 Nobel Laureate and a member of the accident investigation board. The talk also discussed the future of human spaceflight. Doug, like so many others (myself included) seems less than enthusiastic about the Bush plan to get us back to the moon and to Mars.
HIGHLIGHT: On Thursday evening,langs_place and I went to a local carnival. Rode together on merry-go-round and ferris wheel. Rode solo on gravitron and "mega-drop." There was much eye candy to admire, though Lang did point out that most of the aforementioned eye candy was also jail bait. Still, doesn't hurt to look.
LOWLIGHT: Later Thursday evening, there was a snake slithering across the main road. Given its slow motion and the dark, I noticed it immediately before running the poor thing over. This is the first time, in over ten years of driving, that I have killed anything larger than a bug with my car. Needless to say, the entire thing was very upsetting. I went back and pulled over to confirm that the snake was dead. Then I callcheshcat as soon as I could, so that she could help me do an appropriate ritual for it. This made me feel somewhat better, but I was still really shaken up and sad for the rest of the night.
HIGHLIGHT: In about two hours, I will be heading out to the airport to fly to Arizona, there to spend a three day weekend withcheshcat. It will be good to be in my [other] home, to see Chesh, and to go swimming in the Phoenix summer heat.
langs_place and used it to cross a lake. On the other side of the lake, we relaxed in a spa and swimming pool.HIGHLIGHT: On Wednesday, there was a very interesting colloquium on the Columbia Space Shuttle accident given by Doug Osheroff, a 1996 Nobel Laureate and a member of the accident investigation board. The talk also discussed the future of human spaceflight. Doug, like so many others (myself included) seems less than enthusiastic about the Bush plan to get us back to the moon and to Mars.
HIGHLIGHT: On Thursday evening,
langs_place and I went to a local carnival. Rode together on merry-go-round and ferris wheel. Rode solo on gravitron and "mega-drop." There was much eye candy to admire, though Lang did point out that most of the aforementioned eye candy was also jail bait. Still, doesn't hurt to look. LOWLIGHT: Later Thursday evening, there was a snake slithering across the main road. Given its slow motion and the dark, I noticed it immediately before running the poor thing over. This is the first time, in over ten years of driving, that I have killed anything larger than a bug with my car. Needless to say, the entire thing was very upsetting. I went back and pulled over to confirm that the snake was dead. Then I call
cheshcat as soon as I could, so that she could help me do an appropriate ritual for it. This made me feel somewhat better, but I was still really shaken up and sad for the rest of the night.HIGHLIGHT: In about two hours, I will be heading out to the airport to fly to Arizona, there to spend a three day weekend with
cheshcat. It will be good to be in my [other] home, to see Chesh, and to go swimming in the Phoenix summer heat.