In other news, just got back form Lake Tahoe on Sunday, where I attended the ASME Summer Bioengineering Conference. Kinda took me back to my roots in Mechanical Engineering, although I insist that they would revoke my degree if they tested my ME knowledge now. My talk apparently went well, but I'm a terrible judge of that myself.
The best part of this conference was that pretty much everyday only had about 6-7 hours of conference meetings and the rest was open for free time. On Thursday, we were done around 2, so we went to a ropes course. While this mostly reminded me how out of shape/weak I am, it was still fun. Did one that pretty much zapped my arms in my 2nd and a half run (I did one as an example run, but they didn't let me finish). So I didn't try anything too difficult after that. Cindy of course made us all look stupid she climbed everything attempted.
Looking up at Cindy
Looking down from the top
On Friday, we rented kayaks and went out into Lake Tahoe for an hour. Then returned to the Squaw Creek Village to watch BEDrock play (a cover band comprised of professors from the BioEngineering Division of ASME). I had to bail to practice for my talk, which was in the final session of the weekend. Saturday night ended with some swimming as I finally went to bed at midnight, only to have to catch a shuttle to the airport at 4am. I took the earliest flight I could so I could be at home with my wife. It was a fun conference, but I was happy to return.
In other news, I suddenly suck in softball (1/3 1r 2rbi, 1 error + 2 plays I could have made if I could track a line drive). Hopefully this ends soon, I play again on Thursday. Strangely, I'll probably be best served sticking to SS, never thought I would say that. j has her triathlon coming up on Saturday, and t should be coming in this weekend. Looking forward to it.
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