Are you kidding me?!

Where the heck have I been?! Wow.

Sooo many things to post on. Let's see. Gram is doing well and resting comfortably at Mom and Dad's house. That's good. She's got a long row to ho, but she'll get 'er done. I think Mom and Dad (and Gram) are adjusting to co-habitation. So far there haven't been any homicides, which is good.

Christmas break was great. We tried to make it a bit more low-key this year in terms of house-jumping. We managed to stay in our PJ's until late in the afternoon and only went to two different houses with a quick stop to pick up the girls in between. It was really nice and relaxing and fun. Went to see the movie "Nine" on xmas night. Wasn't impressed. I kept waiting to have the a-ha moment when it all made sense. Never happened.

We totally had a blast on New Years this year. Neither one of us are known for our partying skills, but we brought our A game on 12/31. We imbibed some adult beverages at our frieneighbors house, then went downtown for dinner with Jen, Tim, Allison and Steve. We laughed a lot and had a great time. What a great way to close the book on the oughts, and open the book on the tens (or teens?).

And finally, to close out this rather boring update, I started my new gig yesterday. YES!!! I'm pretty stoked about it. The people seem really nice and super smart. Which means I feel like an outcast. Yesterday was all about meeting people and filling out HR paperwork, but today we got down to brass tacks. Holy crap. I had to geek out, big time and I LOVED it! I tickled some brain cells that haven't been tickled in a looooong time and it felt good. I had to crack a bunch of text books to remind myself (teach myself?) about calculating mass flow rates of natural gas into a boiler with 82% high heat value efficiency and 90% low heat value efficiency in order to produce 100,000 lbs of steam per hour and eee err gak blip ding. *tweak* Yeah. Then I learned about back pressure steam turbines and HRSGs and deaerators and sizing boiler feedwater pumps and Rankine cycle and Carnot efficiencies and grrreeet dip bang vwooop.

I don't see myself getting much sleep tonight. It's like after a long bike ride when your legs are still buzzing. I have a feeling my brain is still going to be on a high duty cycle.

Hopefully Jonas will give us a long savasana tonight so I can try to quiet my overactive brain cells. Both of them.