A few cool articles in the tech/geek world caught my attention so I thought I'd share:

• Lego Space Shuttle
• Video of the ISS parts coming together
• WiFi on a School Bus
• Airborne Laser is tested

My friend Jacinthe does amazing collages of random stuff. I am not nearly as creative, but I finally got motivated to do a collage of all the holiday cards we received this year. It still came out fairly rectangular (I am an engineer after all), but I'm pleased with the results. Can you find yours? Better yet, can you find Jacinthe's card? It had the best collage to date!

We were just on our way home from a friend's house in NH (thanks for the fun game night Meg & Steve!), driving home along Route 3. We were thinking the roads were pretty bad, and all of a suddenly they got clear - they became just wet. I wasn't driving, but I was focusing pretty intently on the road. I looked up to see what was going on and realized that we had just crossed the state border. It literally was a line where the MA plows started. This has happened to me in reverse (going into bad plowing) many times on the way to work and everyone tells me I'm nuts. I'm not. If you care to check me, go drive Route 3 right now between the states. Massachusetts snow removal is SSSSOOOO much better than New Hampshire!

Recipe for a great day for Jen:

Ingredients:

• One successful IRAD report
• One compliment that the report was good (last year's comments from the same person were that it was not technical enough)
• One good cup of tea
• One completed proposal on a pre-engineering workshop at a conference in April
• One AWESOME husband who did all the baking I was supposed to do
• One dinner out
• One great concert (mix terrific new opener with great Pat McGee performance)
• One hot chocolate
• One unplugged performance by Pat McGee standing on a chair about 2 feet from me
• One chocolate chip cookie

Instructions: Combine ingredients in 24 hour period in the order listed. Stir in some good music on the radio and hitting mostly green lights.

Yield: One good day for Jen despite working on a vacation day.