Le sigh. 29 on the 6th. Went to dinner at Texas Roadhouse on Saturday the 5th with a bunch of friends and had the brownie sundae – yum! And on Sunday I went on the Jelly Belly factory tour with family and my pirate & Meow, followed by dinner at Red Lobster. 
Fun times! I stil love the dancing robots.
The following weekend I got to see some of my other really good friends down in San Diego. I was sent to a weekend work training in LA, so my pirate and I drove down together. I got to meet more of his family and he got to meet more of my friends. Plus the work training was super useful, so just a great trip overall.
“We’re driving down the 10th, I have class at the Anaheim Convention Center the 11-12 and we’re planning to head down to S.D. on the 13th and drive home on the 14th.”
My pirate sent me this great video: Music and Life – Alan Watts
EA graduated from vet school! (And wow is the cute card I got her going to be late…once I find it again in the den.)
I get some interesting stuff on the TSP (Technology Support Program) email list at work. Like this:
SCIENTISTS LINKS LAPTOPS TO DETECT EARTHQUAKES – Scientists at UC Irvine are working on a project that harnesses data from laptops to help analyze seismic activity
Agam Shah, Washington Post, April 4, 2008
URL: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/04/AR2008040400041.html
Related: Quake-Catcher Network – http://qcn.ucr.edu/ ; BOINC – http://qcn-web.stanford.edu/Join.html
Excerpt: Elizabeth Cochran sensed an opportunity to save lives when she realized laptops can be used as seismometers to detect earthquakes. Many laptops have an accelerometer, a sensor that detects motion and free fall, and that can be used to detect the intensity of earthquakes when a laptop shakes. The Quake-Catcher Network (QCN) is a project that harnesses seismic data from sensors on Internet-connected laptops in different locations to help capture earthquakes. When the laptop isn’t being used, special software on laptops collects sensor data, which along with the laptop’s location, is sent over the Internet to an earthquake data repository where the data is analyzed.
