It's to keep you humble, Hec.

So here's the 3 pix I managed before my battery died. This is where my universe lives!

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So now that my dad is Professor Emeritus, he's vacating his office (which is a really nice space) and moving into another office, upstairs. Which was last Clyde Tombaugh's office, been vacant ever since he died. Even still has his desk. (My dad's giving it to someone else, cause he's not a desk person.) But that's kinda cool, and fitting, I think.

Clyde was the origins of the department- it was originally a subspecialty of the physics department- and Dad was one of the people he hired in the beginning specifically to help grow the department into a serious force in astronomy. And I have to say, with a 3.5 meter and the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, not to mention smaller projects and collaborations, coming under NMSU's astro department's responsibility, it accomplished that. My dad wasn't alone in it, not by any means, but there is a reason he was site director for APO. There is a reason he was in the "Millionaire's Club" of grants for the better part of the last decade (and he had it in multiples.) He was always muttering about not having enough time for science, but he sure as hell enabled a lot more science than he could ever produce personally.

So I'm proud of him.

Your dad sounds awesome, sarameg!

We're watching Super Why. I think it's time to delete the 20 hours of Yo Gabba Gabba I have on the Tivo.

Have I mentioned I really like Grace's new nurse?

No, you haven't, Kat, but I am glad.

Oh Cash, my sympathies. I've been there before.

sara, I ♥ your parents.

Vortex - YOU ROCK!!!

Did she like them? I can make changes if need be.

Have I mentioned I really like Grace's new nurse?

Is that the guy, Kat?

Well done, Prof. Emeritusimeg!

Erin, you cleaned that shit up. Also, your lamp looks like a perfectly buffed and shiny butt.

ION, humanity continues to depress me as I saw the current cover of Newsweek (or Time?) that has a portrait of a young girl whose face was mutilated by the Taliban after she ran away from her abusive in-laws.

In specific: They cut off her nose and ears.

I don't know why this instance of human cruelty makes me want to stabbinate so many people (though, that's obviously the intent and provocation of the cover choice). But it definitely stirs a savage vengeful impulse. Plus, sadness. A bit of sick at the stomach and I can't shake the image.

I think it's partly because she's so beautiful. It's the (literal) human face thing -- I think hearing about atrocities in bulk makes them easier not to think about.

In better news about humanity, yay for a good nurse, Kat! Yay for your awesome dad, Sara!