Yesterday, my friend J asked me if I wanted to join her in the Luna Bar Women’s Triathlon at the Rancho Seco Park in August, and I immediately responded with an enthusiastic “yes!” The course consists of a 1/2 mile swim, 16 mile bike and 3 mile run. I have been working out [...]

At 6:30 pm this evening, my agent called with the good news – the seller has accepted our offer.  We are now in the process of finding a home inspector and move forward with the process.  Currently, there is an issue with the floor in the living room, but the seller has arranged for a [...]

We put in an offer for a house this afternoon.  Very nervous, but also excited about the venture.  If all goes well, we may be in Sacramento by the end of August.

Sophie Gabrielle was born on July 22, 2007 weighing 7 lbs and 10 oz. Both mom and baby are doing well.

So happy for the both of you.  I can’t wait to meet her.

Made this for another friend who was so good about playing along with us.  My friend took all of the bobbleheads from his office and we sent him clues that he had to successfully complete before retrieving his bobblehead.  It took him over a month to get them all back.

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I found this piece of canvas sitting around my apartment collecting dust. After reading Ali’s recent blog entry and seeing her canvas artwork, I was inspired to create this for a friend to display in his classroom.

Still at the NASA Explorer Schools training and am learning lots of good stuff. Yesterday, we created a model of DNA using candy + toothpicks, and modeled how solar radiation could damage the DNA molecule. We made several segments and in this picture, we were trying to illustrate the double helix.

Up close shot of our [...]

Our team’s patch. Thanks Jim for putting this together for us.

We had an early start this morning with a visit to the visitor’s center to get badged. Then we were off to the Education Resource Center for a mission patch activity. Alicia, the AMES-NES Coordinator (and Space Science Geek and former teacher), brought her extensive collection of patches and student work [...]

A friend of mine is really into performing arts. This young lady is really blossoming into a wonderful theatre performer. I’ve been to many performances and have been impressed with her work. I made a book to document her theatrical experience, from her first play to her most recent productions. I [...]