Work brought me to LA for the week.   I left on Monday at 3:30pm and I should be coming back on Friday morning.  We’re basically having a series of meetings,  for the project I’m on and I’m on the hook to present a few things.  I’m staying at a Hilton in Canoga Park, it’s pretty nice.   Since I got a rent-a-car I’ll try and go out and visit various places.  Last night I went to Santa Monica and it was pretty nice.  The coast down here is definitely different than the one we have in Seattle.  I saw bunch of pelicans which was kind of cool.  Saw them dive bomb the fishies.

I’ve got a BUNCH of photos finished up so I will be posting them to the website hopefully this coming weekend.

Went for an 8K run today. The anual Seafair Torchlight run. The plan was to ride my bike down to Qwest field and do the run, then ride back. Unfortunatelly I got a flat tire on the bike and was unable to fix it since the tire bead got all screwed up. I guess I’ll have to buy some new tires, cevlar this time, since I had an unusual amount of flats this year.

So since the bike was out of commision I decided to bus to downtown on 41 and then catch the new light rail in the downtown tunnel. It was my first ride on the rail. I was pleasntly surprised how smooth the ride is. The rail is very quiet and acceleration and decelration are very gradual and smooth. I wasable to stand without the assistance of the poles. I can’t wait for them to expand the service.

Back to the run. It was very hot. I was completely wiped out at mile 2 and at mile 4 I had to walk for about 2 blocks. This has never happened to me. It did not help that I was carrying my backpack with water, food and change of close. I finished the run in about 45 minutes, which is my regular jogging time and as such I was pretty dissapointed. I did manage to see a LOT of friendly faces there and it looks like I might try and get a regular running crew going. I’m waiting for an official time but I’m sure my clock was accurate enough. This race proved to me that I really have to mix in some drills with my regular jogging if I’m going to improve my times.

Been to a farm again .  And I should be going to see some baby tigers soon too.  I was extremely busy with work and a whole BUNCH of photo shoots.  Enertia had a 10th year annyversary, so I did five photoshoots for that, then Passion had a mini show at the starting line of Livestrong.  Besides that I went to Mt. Rainer and managed to sled in July , that was my 4th of July weekend.

As far as schoolwork I stoped writting about it since I got a hold of another book by prof. James Callen from U of Wis-Mad.  and have been trying to absorb some of the stuff and understand it a bit better.  This book seems pretty good and it’s a lot more detailed than the previous one.  Most of the equations are derived right then and there so it takes a bit longer to understand everything.  I will be posting more as I go along.

p.s.

Jamaica trip is coming up in just few weeks.  I’m super psyched about it.

I’m finally back here.  Work and school were uber busy last few weeks and I’ve had a lot of side things going on that I really didn’t have an urge to sit down and write things.  I’ve done some small changes to the website though, like adding few small details as well as a LaTeX editor.  This is my plan to start writting some plasma physics things on here.  I need to get ready for my qualifying exam and the best way would probably be to go trough some of the books I have start to end.  While going trough them I will be writting posts about whatever it is that I’m reading.  Hopefully this will reinforce my learning and at the same time preserve some of that information on the web.

Besides all this I’ve been doing a lot of running.  I average about 5-6 miles a day, but I’ve ran a few 8-10 mile runs as well.  I’m looking for 5K runs all the time so let me know, all I need is a day notice.  If it’s a 10K run then I will need 2-3 days so that I can adjust my daily running schedule.  In June I’m hopping to do my first half-marathon, but with $100 entry fees I’m not sure if that’s going to be worth it.  Let me know if you know of any cheaper ones.

It has been while since I’ve written anything, but life has been pretty busy.  I’m finally getting finished with Rex’s photos and I should have them up here over the weekend I hope.  There will be a new watermark that I will be adding to all of my photos in the future.  This way I’ll get a bit more exposure.  Main reason why I don’t update as much is that I just didn’t have much time.  I’ve been doing a lot of busy things, from work, school and hanging out with people I’ve been looking for some free time just for relaxation and not writing blogs.  Hopefully I’ll start a bit of plasma physics writing, but until then I leave you with one of the cutes pictures yet: