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This weekend I tackled Mt. Aix. It’s not well known or well traveled, but it’s a great trail with a spectacular view. It started at 5:30 when I got out of bed and showered. I was on the highway heading for Chinook pass at 6:30, exactly on time. It was a pleasant drive up there,…

This weekend was simply amazing. Thursday night I got home from Albuquerque. Friday night I went to Kimo’s for a little salsa dancing, but there was nobody there, so I had one dance, said hi to the band (they know me by name now), and went back home to pack for Saturday. Saturday I was…

Last week I was in the fair city of Albuquerque, New Mexico. It was a quick business trip; integrating some of our software with some of Sandia National Laboratory’s software and testing to make sure it all worked before we deploy it in DC later this month. Unlike my DC trip a few weeks ago,…

Last week I was in DC for a project. This is the same project that had me almost go to Pakistan in March, that deals with Customs and Border Patrol, and that involves protecting the U.S. from inbound containers containing radioactive material. It’s a high profile project and one of the first I’ve been on…

I’m back from my trip to Georgia. It was a whirlwind two weeks, and unfortunately I only had a few hours to play. The work we were doing was important, and was exactly what I expected, which is why it was so cool. Getting there was a pain because of a storm in Atlanta that…

I finally got my tickets today. I leave for Georgia on Sunday for work, and I’ll be there two weeks. It’s really late notice because we’ve only just received the money, and couldn’t make travel plans without the money for the project. I’m excited about this trip. The purpose is to work with the Air…

This weekend we went back to Mt. Rainier, but this time we went to the other side of the mountain to explore. Six of us (Me, Nick, Carolyn, and the interns Susie, Teandra, and Ben), left early Saturday morning and drove first to the White River Campground to claim a spot, and then to Sunrise,…

My first cell phone ever has become terminally ill. I’ve had it for a few weeks more than three years. It’s been a good phone; it has gone for thousands of miles and minutes, been in my pocket everywhere I go, gotten me out of tough spots, and served me well. Yesterday it went on…

Last weekend I went camping with some friends up at Mt. Rainier. We started early on Saturday morning, meeting at WinCo to consolidate into my car and a truck. The drive up was cramped but uneventful. When we got to our campsite (Ohanapecosh is the name of the site, which is a few miles away…

It’s been a little over a week since I’ve returned from Europe, and I’m finally catching up enough to write about the trip. The truth is that I wrote the whole time I was there, but it’s hard to condense 40 pages on paper into a few paragraphs in a blog. So without further ado,…