time reversal

I went to visit Dave last weekend in Boulder, and decided that I’m going to live there when I grow up (roughly 7-15 years from now, if it ever happens). It was a most excellent weekend, despite the only furniture in Dave’s apartment being a rug and cardboard boxes. Saturday was beautiful and sunny, so [...]

It’s been a long time since I’ve had time to post here. Basically, I’ve just been working WAY too hard. Luckily though, I managed to get away last weekend with Tucker and my climbing partner (Kevin) to do some climbing in Tuolumne Meadows, which is in Yosemite National Park.
We arrived Thursday night, and there [...]

After my failure to sound even remotely coherent at my Hertz interview the day after I got back from the South Pole (I blame jetlag–26 hours of flying), Dave arrived in Berkeley, CA to whisk me away on an epic climbing adventure. We started out at the crack of 10am on Tuesday morning with the [...]

On Tuesday night I talked to Tucker. “What are the chances of you ditching work and coming climbing with me this weekend?” I asked. “Excellent. See you Thursday evening,” he replied.
Tucker arrived from LA on Thursday night smelling of salt. “I had to stop on the way to go surfing,” he explained. After a [...]

Dave came out to Berkeley this weekend, and we decided to go rock climbing in Yosemite. It was 94 degrees F in the valley this weekend, so we decided to head up to Tuolumne meadows. We left Berkeley at around 7pm and rolled into the campground around 11:30. After searching for awhile we found an [...]

There seems to be a giant discrepancy in hours in lab between those who have wives/girlfriends, and those who are single. The otherwise committed ones mostly seem to work normal hours. Now obviously they work longer hours when it’s really crunch time, and sometimes they do analysis at home, but mostly they keep to a [...]