Happy Thanksgiving everyone

So I'm late with my well-wishes, so what. Had a nice Turkey day with my parents, sister and her family, and my aunt and uncle. While we were there we attempted to take some family photos since we've never done such a thing with my side of the family. Suprisingly, despite my limited abilities with a SLR, most of the photos actually turned out all right. Below is my new favoriate photo of all time, including the two most important people in my whole world.

That's all for today.

Old MacDonald

One quick story ... after giving Tyler a bath, Laura and I move him to the counter in the bathroom to dry him off. He often dislikes being put back down after having been pulled from the bathtub, so we will start singing to him to keep him calm. Usually, for whatever reason, we start singing "Old MacDonald", pick animals at random, and invent noises for them to make. This one time I sang

"And on this farm he had a ... Tyler
Eee I Eee I Ohh"

To which Laura responded, "A Tyler? On a Farm? I hope he is a Free Range Tyer".

Ok, it was silly, but it made me bust out laughing. The whole idea of a Tyler on a farm in a cage or ranging freely; it was a silly image to me. If it was my Tyler, he would certainly have to be a Free Range Tyler considering how much this little guy wants to move around.

tiny hotel soap

Good Morning from the Whale's Vagina. (How's that for a blog opening?) Yes, I am submitting a blog from beautiful San Diego, where my employer has sent me to oversee a hydrostatic pressure test on my hardware (my design, my eqipment, my "other kid"). The stuff I designed is too large to fit into either of the two pressure test chambers that we have back in Davis, and there is a company here in SD with whom we have a pretty good relationship, so every so often we package up our hardware, spend too much on next-day freight, then lower the equipmet into the big water tank and squeeze away to see whether the thing can stand the pressure.

Me personally, althought the testing is interesting, I'd rather be hanging out on the beach. I am in San Diego after all! But this trip is too short; arrived yesterday morning, prepped to test all day long, test today, and hopefully have time to pull the equipment out of the chamber and package it back up for shipment before I hop on a plane back home tonight. One night away from my wife and kid is too much already.

What is the deal with the tiny hotel soaps anyway? Even if I were staying here for a couple days, there's no way I'd ever use much of the small bar they provide. Where does all that soap go? Seriously? Either there is a LOT of soap in landfills, or some couple of families somewhere have a lot of soap furniture.

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I did have just enough time last night to drive around and (very) briefly see the regular sights that Laura and I like; the UCSD campus, the Torey Pines Gliderport, La Jolla and La Valencia (where we were married), Mission Bay. I felt really guilty for visiting the Gliderport without Laura (it was one of her favoriate, and most relaxing places to visit when she was in school here); the cool sea breaze is suprisingly refreshing and relaxing; both Laura and I could really use a lot of that. I had time for only a few deep breaths before I had to move on.

Anyway, back to it now, time to eat and get to the test facility again.

Good Morning, and Stay Classy San Diego.