Keystone Korner

Well, I'm back agian from a great trip. This time I was in Keystone, CO... no I didn't go skiing. I prefer to kept my spine and head free from injury.



I was at a nerd conference on DNA replication and recombination. WOW!!! So much info. Such a beautiful place and great people. I met some hopefully fruitful collaborators and personal friends. BTW, Dever, CO airport is one of the most horrible places on earth. We were delayed, then delayed some more, then we stayed o/n in a hotel, then we were delayed... our shuttle crashed into a dumpster, Enrichque managed to get us to the airport later, and then we got home to Madison.



Sounds fun heh? I did manage to get a free ticket voucher from United though, so not all bad. Its not as if I were dying to get back to work.



Now I'm back, listening to my freak music and doing work. No change in weather. Co is cold and snowy, WI is also cold and snowy. One difference... the cheese here is so much better.



Have a Gouda day!

Comin' down off an X-mas high

Back from my break. Man, what a blast. I saw all the fam, and went to a wedding in NY. That's the fourth wedding recently!

(1) Liz down in atlanta

(2) Jen in MD

(3) Timmy in WI

(4) Angela in NY



Next up is (5) Steph in Illinois and (6) Dave in Indiana. Bring it on!

I am apparently the wedding king. I've been a groomsman in two and an usher in one. I should probably get ordaned and go ahead and be the wedding MC at the chapel. Maybe I should post some pictures of the brides and grooms.



But first... the all important permission.

Slow times

USRSF
Originally uploaded by Da Yooper in WI.

Today is a sluggish day. I TA a general biochem course with 200 kiddies in it and the final is this Sat. And I would love for at least 1 student to actually try to find the answer before coming to me with a question. My labmate Mike managed to cheer me up though...

We began the moring at work by listening to "Da thirdy point buck" by Da Yoopers. A WI Xmas classic. A tale of adventure from the lodges of northern WI that nearly causes me to wet myself when the narrator describes Bett Lou, with "combination AK57/oozie, radar laser, triple barrel, double-scope, heat-seaking shotgun."

If you haven't already heard this one, I recommend it.
Kinda reminds me a a Northern version of USRSF.

First time reporting

Well, as stated, this is the first time I've reported from my now native territory of Wisconsin. And for tose of you that don't already know, the Mid-West is America's 3rd coast in all it's glory.



My friend (we'll call her cute) started a blog recently and asked for her friends to submitt comments. Unknowingly (I hope) she didn't realize that to post a comment, you have to sign in. Which lead me here... signed in. And I can't promise anything exciting will ever be posted. I can't even promise there will be a second post. But for a friend, I gave up my internet identity so that I could send a comment.



I now leave this post to go innoculate some cell cultures and have a beer with my Russian associate, pray that I don't get the two confused.