bottom of the list

So, I was an advocate of the blogs listed by order of recent updates on the Palmer blog, since it seemed very user friendly. Now I realize, that when you are at the bottom of the list, it means you are the biggest blogslacker on there. My main excuse is no pictures. Let me think of some blogworthy news.

We are going to Hawaii for 10 days, from the 6th to 16th. I am very excited. I am going to try an help mom get her energy bill down. Should be a fun project. It would be nice to expand the solar water heater if possible, maybe swap some appliances for more efficient models, making sure all of the shower heads and lights low flow and fluorescent, respectively. I've thought installing rainbarrels would be good too. Her energy bill is insanely high, so stuff that wouldn't be cost effective for many people probably would for her. (Lots of people and Hawaii energy prices.) Any suggestions.

I am almost finished applying for jobs and actually kind of stoked to get working on my dissertation again. I mean, if I get a job, I'm going to need to have it finished this year, which seems doable, but I will be busy. I had my first phone interview. It went well, I thought.

We went kayaking again. We need to figure out some kid games, because they get pretty bored and don't like it anymore. I think we just need to give ourselves more time so we can stop, check out beaches, etc. We did see paddle out to a rock that we always seem from the beach, and realized that the back side is home to about 20 sea lions. They were all at home too. It was very cool.

We are going to Norcal for Thanksgiving to see Chris and Da, Sienna and Tony, Noel and Austin, and everyone else who I haven't seen in a long, long time. We are very excited. And, there is a BIG north swell due that weekend. Hopefully we will have picts to post soon. (We took some kayaking, but the are all out of focus for some reason.)