News and Views

Devon has accepted a position with SubSurface Exploration Company, in Pasadena. SECo “provides high quality seismic data acquisition and data processing services to clients in the oil and gas industry.” Devon will be a Geophysicist, utilizing his expertise at signal processing and mathematical physics to help interpret reflected and transmitted sound waves and analyze the […]

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This morning I got up and saw lying in the back yard the bottle of insecticide that had been up out of Apollo’s reach — or so I had thought. The bottle was almost empty, and there was a hole chewed in the bottom. There was a new puddle on the porch of unknown composition, […]

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Apollo is still growing. I don’t have a picture — I’ll try to get one up, but he isn’t visibly much different from the one a month ago. Still a very good natured dog — I’ve never seen him angry or upset, though he does get very excited when it’s time for a walk. Everywhere […]

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We’re headed up to Greer for the weekend, to stay in a cabin owned by the Bates family. If you don’t know, Greer is a tiny village in the White Mountains south east of Showlow. Next week Devon is flying back to Southern California to interview with a Geophysics company. Sounds like it could be […]

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We just got back from California where Devon received his BS Degree in Physics from Harvey Mudd College. In case you’re thinking, “Harvey Mudd College?”, it was rated by US News and World Report in their annual college rating issue as the number one undergraduate science and engineering college in the country. Devon graduated with […]

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Apollo is now just 5 months old, and weighs just 50 pounds. He goes through 20 pounds of dry and maybe 5 pounds of canned puppy food in about 2 weeks; nearly that much comes out the other end (Derek probably thinks it’s much more). You are supposed to be able to start them pulling […]

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Yesterday I felt pretty good. However this morning I woke up and the world was spinning around wildly. It was the worst vertigo I have ever experienced. Fortunately it only lasted a few minutes, but for that time I just closed my eyes and buried my head in my pillow. If I opened my eyes […]

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I was playing basketball this morning when I started sprinting after a loose ball. Somebody else was also sprinting after it from another angle. We collided and I got knocked into a cement block wall, head first. The next thing I knew I was lying on the ground with everybody in the gym standing over […]

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Gisele, Derek and I went to “Body Worlds” this week. If you haven’t heard about this, it’s an exhibit of real human bodies that have undergone a process called “plastination”. Water and fats from body tissues are replaced with plastic “polymers”. The result is bodies completely preserved and natural looking in various poses and levels […]

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You’ve been asking for updated pictures of Apollo, so here he is. It’s amazing how fast he has grown!

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