Attempt 2

Hi folks,

I was perusing the SPA blogosphere and it turns out that my first attempt was a rather miserable failure, declining to appear in these esteemed virtual pages. So.. back on the horse.

Thanks again to Dave and the others for settting up this blog. It really is great to hear from people again. Unfortunately I don't make it back to MN much and will not be able to make it to reunion. Would have loved to go back home and to see old friends.

My life in a nutshell.. My apologies to Dave, but unfortunately these little summaries can sound like a resume. Partly due to the realities of time. And partly due to the fact that... whatever happens in Boulder stays in Boulder, so to speak.

I met my wife, Jennifer, at Carleton right before graduation. Move to Los Angeles to start at UCLA in Chemistry. Transferred to U of Texas and lived there with Jen and had a buncha fun in a very cool (albeit hot as hell) town. Did a postdoc there. Moved back to Los Angeles to help startup a fiber optics company. DId that for a couple of years. Got a job back in academia which I find much more fun. So I came to McGill University in 2003. The things that keep me up at night (other than kids) are looking at nanogoo with really big lasers. Lotsa fun and games.

We are loving live in Montreal. We have two boys, Rohan (3.5) and Nico (1.5). Rohan was born to be a banker and Nico was born to be a surfer. you can tell it from birth! Mostly we spend time hanging with the kids, trying to do the foodie thing with kids (not so easy) and trying to get the kids to rawk out to Dinosaur Jr. and the Pixies. Nico seems to dig it - but as before, the surfer thing..

All told, things are great but intense. It seems such is life in one's thirties.

Pat