Some new stuff.

Work's been keeping me busy lately, so I've gotten a bit behind on the AT journals.  I'm not sure anyone is reading them anymore anyway.  I'll get back to it by winter time I hope...
In the mean time, here are some photo albums from my trip to Amsterdam, which was a weekend trip a coworker and I took while in Germany for work.  The canals were pretty cool and there lots of cool bikes. 
Amsterdam

The other one has some pictures of the garden.  We wound up having a great crop of weeds.  In addition, the carrots did better than I expected and are quite tasty.  The tomatoes are just now getting ripe too.  There's some other things as well, but I doubt they'll get big enough to eat before the cold kills them.  Going to have to get an earlier start next year.
Garden

I also met Chrissy and her family down on the Cape when I got back from that trip.  However, that got cut short by "Hurricane" Earl evacuations, which turned out blowing itself out and turning out to sea before any damage was done.  Here's some photos I took of the beach one of the mornings I was there:
Cape Cod

And some other exciting news (although a bit scary when I think about paying it off the next 6 years...) is that we got a new vehicle.  We got a 2009 Toyota Tacoma.  Only had 14,000 miles on it, and I think we got a pretty good deal.  It's pretty much what we were after.  It's a "double cab" which means Chrissy can still haul around all the kids she watches, and it's got a 6' bed, which means we'll be able to sleep in it if we can ever afford to take a big cross country trip with it.  Eventually we'll get a cap, but for now, we'll do without.  I wish we could have gotten a manual, but I can live with an automatic.  We traded in "Dixie", Chrissy's old Ford Escort Wagon.  They gave us a whopping $150 for it.  So, the Suby is still around and will continue to be my daily driver.  The truck will be Chrissy's transportation until she learns to drive standard and then we'll get to fight over who gets to take the nice car.  Without further ado, here she is.  Taking suggestions on nicknames...

The new ride.

Last, and probably least, my research from grad school has FINALLY been published.  It's not going to change the world (or even cave science) at all, but it's not a bad little study.  Sure had fun doing it anyway.  The article has been finished for 2 years now I think, but it's just now getting published.  Apparently, there were more important things that took priority over some little sea cave study from the Bahamas.  So, if you happen to stumble upon The Journal of Cave and Karst Studies and your local magazine rack, my article is the first one!  It's so hot off the presses, you can't find it online yet...  Here's the bibliographic info if you want to find it eventually:

Waterstrat, W., et. al, 2010, Coastal Caves in Bahamian Eolian Calcarenites:  Differentiating Between Sea Caves and Flank Margin Caves Using Quantitative Morphology.  Journal of Cave and Karst Studies, v. 72, No. 2, p. 61-74

Sea caves are cool even if no one appreciates them.