Fall

Well, fall is upon us. I’m either drugged or sneezing. It’s awesome.

Flying back to Norfolk (pronounced “Naw-fuck”) Virginia today to do the second round of work with NASA. I’m back on Wed night.

Friday, Jen and I fly to Michigan to become Godparents for Z, and M’s new daughter, D. Along the way, I hope to catch up with _earthshine_, since I haven’t seen him in person since his wedding. Depending on how the scheduling realities on the ground turn out, maybe I can catch up with some other MI folks as well.

Finished one of the two sets of stairs on the deck yesterday. The ones we finished are “open stringers,” which means that you nail the treads on top of a zig-zag cut board. Dead simple. I tried to create “closed stringers” for the other ones, and wound up muttering profanity to myself, in the rain. I’m *sure* I can make it work … I just wasn’t able to do so yesterday.

That was the state when robotify, technolope, and capital_l showed up bearing wine and cheese to rescue me. We had a fun time sitting around, watching TED videos (as well as videos of baby pandas, sneezing), and then eating way too much asian food.