So much has happened. Here's a recap:

Nina got her job with T-6 here at the lab. This means that she won't have to work shit jobs anymore, will have considerably more money, and will be much happier. The side effect of this for me is that she will now be able to pay me for rent and whatnot, and I will therefore be able to take advantage of my real income. What a relief. It only took the lab 8 months to hire her... ugh.

We had a rocket launch yesterday, but the wind was so high that it was mostly pointless. Here are some pictures.

Nina's play is going well; I went to see it this weekend. I think the writing and direction are terrible, but the actors did very well with what they had. She continues to have performances throughout the rest of the month.

I've been doing some geocaching as a means of getting some daily hikes in. This is training for the Denali group's training trip to Blanca in two weeks. It's also an excuse to use my GPS which now has map data loaded for most of NM and some of southern CO.

This coming weekend I'm going back to Carlsbad to go caving. Mike Mansur, Carrie Finn and I are going to work on the impact map of Hell Below cave. Mike is leaving after Saturday, leaving Carrie and I to ridge walk or whatever. Should be a fun weekend.

The weather has been uncharacteristically warm until yesterday. We've had upper 60's and low 70's for about a week. Last night it rained a lot and early this morning it turned into a light snow. Yesterday's wind hasn't subsided much and now it's blustery. I knew it wouldn't last... but it was nice to get some hikes in the good weather.