Best. Weekend. Ever.

This needs to be a really quick entry because I gotta be teaching a class in 10 minutes.

I left town Friday afternoon around 2:30 which put me in Cinci to see Stacey at 5:30. We grilled out in the hotel courtyard (3+ hour marninated chicken with corn on the cob with SHINER BOCK the best texas beer....). Then it was off to her Mom's house for a little dessert and video on the couch-time.....Aladdin. Amazing. It's been years and years since I've seen that movie and I remembered SO many little gags in it. It was very fun. Those of you who know I'm a muppet fan will recognize that Aladdin is definitely the most zaney Disney movie of all time.

Saturday was jam-packed. We went to the Taft Museum to see some JMW Turner paintings (which are REALLY small and REALLY amazingly detailed), then to Oktoberfest downtown to gorge ourselves on festivities (limberger cheese sandwich, saurkrat and sausage, strudel, and two very large very dark beers), then to the concert at Bogart's.

Oktoberfest was really enjoyable. It's hard to not have a good time when you drink that much beer and eat that much good food. Stacey treated me to a Warsteiner and a Hudy Delight. Wow. Really glad she was driving because those were very very large cups.

Hooray Beer!

The concert was pretty fun. The Bronx were "on" when they played - despite the fact that the roadie brought 5 or 6 cans of Budweiser on stage before they came on, and they finished ALL of them, they played really well. Converge (the middle band) sucked ass. And Mastodon was good as well.... perhaps more dramatic than I was hoping for but in general it was cool to see them play such complicated songs live. We brought ear-plugs this time and that was a really good idea. We were also in the front-front row the whole time and had a great view. I'll try to post some pics on facebook later.

Matt from the Bronx....great stage moves

Sunday was lazy and slow. We went to the batting cages where Stacey hit the crap out of about 80% of the balls and I whiffed on about 60% of the balls....not very coordinated, people.

Last week I had an interview with a Dynamic Systems Engineer from Sikorsky Helicopters. And it went really really well. That would be a cool ass job. Mostly mechanism design of really small high-speed (30000 rpm) components for the military. Awesome.

Ok I'm off to teach my class. Today we're doing 2-stroke Internal Combustion Engines for RC aircraft..... cool. I'm not an expert on engine design but it will still be fun.