Saturday, September 26, 2009

I love being a biologist!





I love biology. I always have.

I haven't made my living practicing biology in years. When I did, it was in a manner completely outside the areas I thought I would practice ( I practiced Quality Assurance in food manufacturing, lots of chemistry and microbiology). I studied biology for the love of critters.

Even here is suburban Chicago, we get neat critters. This afternoon, I was vegging in my chair when a neat critter went waltzing past my patio door. This fox hung out in our back yard for hours today. Pretty cool.

Saturday, September 12, 2009

Looking forward to vacation

Another middle-of-the-night, Friday night, post.

Fell asleep in my chair before midnight and woke up here a few minutes back. Need to decide whether to crawl up to bed, or just stay put when I finish this. Decisions, decisions.

Sue and I are taking a trip in a month. I bought plane tickets, reserved hotel and rental car. We're headed for Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia and places in the vicinity. We'll fly into Richmond on Sat. Oct 10 and see some of the Confederate sights there that day before driving to our Williamsburg hotel where we will HQ for the rest of the week. We're planning a couple of days for Williamsburg itself and time at Jamestown which is very near. We'll take a day to canoe some body of water in the area (canoing is a vacation requirement for Sue) and play a couple of remaining days by ear. That part of the world has far more sights than we could ever do in six days. On the list but not formally planned are suppers including lots of seafood while we're so near the coast, and for that matter, some time on the coast itself as well. I will take lots of pictures to share.

Things at the office seem to be turning toward some kind of routine finally. We spent the whole week actually performing planning duties (that for which we get paid) rather that fixing the planning systems. That's a good indicator that all the pain we've been experiencing is beginning to pay off....about time.

Nathan, our grandson, continues to thrive. He's handsome and brilliant, of course.



Cheers