Explanations

Bodhisattva.

Heard it on the radio (for real!) sometime last week and it just popped into my head while I was playing guitar when I was messing around with some chords that sounded like it. Glad someone, anonymous as he may be, recognized it.

Go Cards.

Well I've been in St. Louis for near 5 years now. This shouldn't require explanation.

Halo is great.

Our project got funded! ...continued We had applied before to the "Bear Cub Fund," a grant from the university for developing technology. Previously we had been declined, probably in favor of something related to computer defense, as that was what Chancellor Wrighton had spoken about all throughout commencement ceremonies back in May. But this time around, we got the award. So very excited! This will be enough for us to build a few prototypes in-house on the CNC--we've already done three versions with our own hands and are ready for something with a bit closer tolerances and sleeker look--to take care of the legal and advising fees associated with a patent and perhaps even with licensing, and to "send off" drawings to make a final prototype out of "real" materials, those that would be used on the market version of the halo system. We'll also have some cash for supplies to run experiments on the mechanics of the device.

I'm feeling corny.

Saturday I went with Laura and Tim and some of Tim's SLU friends to a corn maze near Alton. It was my madien voyage to a corn maze, and it was a good deal of fun. I got home, having skipped lunch but knowing that dinner was soon, and decided on a snack of a can of golden corn niblets.

Where's the beef?

In my tummy, that's where. Kristin roasted some beef in her crock pot and we had a romantic candlelight dinner at her place. Oh, this was soooo delicious. Melt-in-your-mouth meat with homemade mashed potatoes and country-style green beans, a bottle of white zinfandel, and her "Wallace family recipe" apple pie for dessert. She puts my cooking to shame.