Hi all! I would apologize for the drop off in blogging but I had no choice. I’ve been running around this great country of ours and had no access to the Internet, except at hospitals and the short time I spent at my desk in Maine. Big things are happening with my project right now. I got to demo it in an operation yesterday. If I were the patient I would have been a tad nervous to find out that a new, never been tested device was being hooked up to me. Especially if they knew I was behind the controls. But, all went well. God bless IRB’s ;) (I’ll explain those if you talk to me in person or email me) Side note: I can’t explain how weird it is to have 2 PhD’s turn to you during this and ask “What do you suggest we do now?”, or even worse “Does this go here?” Guess I should get used to it.

I found out the other day that I will be heading to San Diego for week at the end of April for a conference/show. I’ll actually be able to answer questions this time!!! I won’t just be a “display dude” which of course is the male equivalent to the “booth babe” (I know I know, just humor me ;p )

If you couldn’t tell work is very hectic right now, but in a good way. Lots of positive activity. Such a welcome change from the last job. Meetings are about growth not reduction.

As a consequence of the work stuff I’ve had to condense all social activity to the weekend. Result: Odd stories from Pittsburgh. I won’t go into the gory details but here is a short list, in no particular order of occurrence, of the things I’ve learned from the last 2 visits:
1) Car batteries and dome lights don’t like each other and in the end the battery ALWAYS loses.
2) 30-something year old engaged females sometimes forget what that pesky ring means
3) 20-something year old guys who I went to school with do not!!!
4) The combination of 2 and 3 equal a funny drunken version of Pepe Le Pew cartoons.
5) You can’t drive a car through a 4 foot tall snow bank, even at 2 in the morning (not me or my friend at the wheel, we weren’t even in the car)
6) Two guys can not push said car from the snow bank no matter how much the girl whines.
7) Sometimes it’s better to lie to strange drunk girls and just leave rather than deal with them all night.
8) Bar owners don’t like said girls using pool tables as dancing platforms, but we do.
9) Fondue is fun!!
10) I need to be 2 inches bigger. Yeah, 2 inches. I assumed they were talking about height but I did walk into the conversation late :)

Ok, anywho…..

That’s all the news that is fit to print right now. Good night!!