How are things with me?  Basically great for an older gentleman.  We moved from our suburban place in 1992 to a townhouse on 33^rd street.  This was a great decision, although I was initially apprehensive.  I ride my bike to work, through Hemphill park and the north campus area, each day.  We can walk to half-price books, Amy’s ice cream, vulcan video, the barber shop, Flamingo automotive and several decent restaurants.  It’s great.  If I had to drive in Austin traffic everyday, I’d pull my own head off.

Work in the lab is going well, but this is largely due to the efforts of others.  Art remains the bulwark of the group, Steve is his sweet self, and the students are generally very good.  The research projects are described on the main web page.  The lab has continued certain key traditions, like tubing on the Comal and watching the Bold and Beautiful.  Now that John Hart is on the faculty at UTHCSSA, his group joins us on the tubing expeditions and it’s a hoot.

The family at my folk’s 50th wedding anniversary, 1994

 

Polly is still writing.   She has become very interested in making scrap books and is doing a wonderful job of organizing and narrating hundreds of photos we have accumulated over a life-time.  They are truely artistic
 

David graduated in 1997 with a degree in Geography.  He has been working as a software programmer since.  He worked for several years in Miami, then in Tallahassee and now lives in Colorado, just north of Denver.   He and I have taken a few fun trip together.  Here is a shot of us in the Yucatan.
 

Clare graduated in 1998 with a degree in design.  She married Russ Wilson in 2000; here is a shot of them at our house before the wedding.   After living for a couple years in West Virginia, where Russ worked as a drug rep for J&J, they moved to Kansas City.  They have a wonderful home and best of all, a Daughter Isabel; here is a picture of me and my grand daughter at Christmas 2004.   Clare and Russ have a fun web site and it has many more pictures.
 

My youngest, Kate, graduated in 2001, with a degree in English.  She has been asked to read from her work at the UT graduation ceremony, so we are pretty tickled.  Just to keep life interesting, she went to grad school at Berkeley in epidemiology!  After graduation she took a job, in 2004, in the Bay Area working for a biomedical consulting firm.  I love this great picture of her on an archeological dig in Israel in 1999, where she is discovering the mosaic floor of an ancient home.  That the first tiles in the lower left.
 

 Our wonderful dog Ted died way back in 1994, and we still miss him - he is a Geezer too.  We have a new dog, Molly, and she is pretty nice, but lacks the big personality of Ted.
 

I have taken to marking up notes and photos from some vacation trips.  A couple are recent trips to the Tetons, one to the British Isles with Kate, one through the Appalachians to visit Clare, and one of a trip to Switzerland and Germany I took with David.  I also maintain pictures, movie reviews and so on at a couple of sites.  One is through UT, and the other is microsoft.