http://deanmassey.net Saving the Universe one beer at a time Sat, 05 Jul 2008 04:58:24 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Come August, my lease is up at the current dump I call home.   These damned leasing agents vultures have been walking people through this place like it is a whore house often with very little notice to me- this particular gem showed up at 5pm, which is when they shut ... http://deanmassey.net/?p=595 NASA comes through again: Water discovered on Mars Good work boys, I want to retire there. http://deanmassey.net/?p=594 My favorite quote: "I just don't feel I deserve health insurance" http://deanmassey.net/?p=592 So, in light of my recent absense from the illustrious deanmassey.net, I figured I should update the universe on what exactly I've been doing for the last ohh, 3 months or so. Since these are all substantial life altering events, a bulleted list should suffice. Defended my thesis, which went ... http://deanmassey.net/?p=590 Did it work? http://deanmassey.net/?p=589 Only 5 days of graduate school left. Still breathing. Still kicking. Still counting . . . down. http://deanmassey.net/?p=586 Maybe next year . . . http://deanmassey.net/?p=585 I left the lab early today, that of course being a relative term, but had I stayed I certainly would have sustained the usual 1st to 2nd degree burns from handling a thruster that is still too hot; a situation that reeks of desperation though we'll just call it "justified ... http://deanmassey.net/?p=584 I mean to write this about two weeks ago but you know . . . So anyway, my flight back to Houghton from Rochester MN was . . . well typical? Under the advice of my parents I hopped on the internet to check in for my flight a few ... http://deanmassey.net/?p=583 As the last post indicated, I flew home for Thanksgiving this year.  Unbeknownst to me though my parents had drastically trimmed down their fleet of available vehicles leaving only one for each of them - which is a very reasonable thing to do.  There was a spare work truck but ... http://deanmassey.net/?p=582