Freaking @#$%$…

I just typed up a decent sized post, talking about my RHF-peeps and livejournal. I just got an email from Meg asking people to start lj-ing again. I replyed giving them a link to my site. I’m not going to start double posting (here and lj) and I’m not going to stop posting here… I like my site (otherwise I wouldn’t pay for it or keep it up-to-date). I would like people to start lj-ing again though. I check livejournal every once in a while to see what my friends are up to, and it’s getting harder to keep tabs on where everyone is in their lives. I’m planning on figuring out some kind of system to help me… maybe a computer program or something that I can say who I talk to and it can warn me if I’ve got for X days without talking to them. Yeah I’m a nerd.

Anyways… people should blog, and they should come to my blog and see what crazy adventures I’ve got myself into. Or better yet… call/write to me. Or even better… visit me in person/grab a bite to eat with me. I don’t bite.

Where am I right now?

I’m in Vienna, VA commuting to NSWC Carderock (Navy base) participating in human powered submarine competition:

Flickr HPS Set

We just finished (30 min ago) installing our new electronic thrust vectoring system. We’ve said for years that we’ll have one and now finally we do. Hopefully it works and the computer box doesn’t flood. That would suck big time. We used to use fins to control the direction of the sub, but the controls for that were manual and very sensitive. The fastest we’ve gone so far in the competition is a lil more than 2 knots (though the timing gates are far apart, and I know we went faster than that). I estimate our top speed would be around 6 knots. The world record is about 7 knots.

Friday night I’ll get back to Blacksburg. I’ve been gone since Sunday and I can’t wait to get back. I’ve been in blacksburg all of 5 days in the entire month of June. I’m ready to be home. I probably won’t leave til Thanksgiving, so you better come visit me. I’m tired and have to wake up pretty early… so leave a comment or something good.

I meant to get more pictures with Holls, but here’s the only one I got:

That was taken after a nice game of Risk with her and two of her roommates.

I decided to not drive through Richmond on my way back to Blacksburg (saved myself a few hours). Stuff for the human powered sub team is ramping up quickly. I leave town AGAIN Sunday morning and we’ll be up at Carderock for a weeks worth of races. Today I skipped out on some of my work and went to the New River to hang out. Sadly it wasn’t a very nice day out…

Now I’m in Centreville, VA. I just spent a grand total of 30 or so minutes with my friend Gina who recently had knee surgery. Dropped off some crucial smallville for her, and now I’m kickin around in a Starbucks (with no internet, this’ll be posted later) until Holly Welsh gets off work. Then we’ll goto dinner and hang out.

Tomorrow I may goto Richmond to visit some people or I may just go straight back to Blacksburg… either way I’ll be in Blacksburg Wednesday night for the infamous dollar pint night.

Holly Welsh rocks my face off. That is all.