http://www.talus-and-heavner.com/blog Keeping up in Juneau, you know. Sun, 30 Nov 2008 07:17:05 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en After a great Thanksgiving, it is time for the biggest weekend of the year for Talus Tiles--Public Market in Juneau.  Carrie and Abbey have a table together again: Carrie got a great selection of tiles and other ceramics together for this year.  Here is a bunch of 6" x 6" tiles: New ... http://www.talus-and-heavner.com/blog/2008/11/29/talus-tiles-big-weekend/ Brian's Birthday was last week.  We took over a six pack of beer, but not just any beer.  A 1996, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, and 2008 Alaskan Smoked Porter!  That emptied out the beer cellar.  But there are rumors that the Alaskan Brewery is selling of some of the older ... http://www.talus-and-heavner.com/blog/2008/11/29/happy-40th-brian/ Scanning a few old photos.  Here we are: Sept 22, 2001.  If you were there, you were lucky.  Memories....   That big black lovable Newfie is Baby Jesus.  Just walking through the Fairadise woods, calling for Baby Jesus is a great memory in and of itself.  We'll miss you Baby Jesus.   Our ... http://www.talus-and-heavner.com/blog/2008/11/21/flashback-1/ Playing catchup, we all went to Houston for the Geologic Society of America meeting.  Cathy Connor and Rob Fatland were there as well, and lots of good scientific presentations went on.  In the "Global Warming Science: Implications for Geoscientists, Educators and Policy Makers" Matt made an afternoon presentation.  James Hansen ... http://www.talus-and-heavner.com/blog/2008/11/18/houston-visit/ We are getting an idea of where to look for Torsten for the next 15 or so years.  He loves going to the skate park in Juneau.  Three days in a row so far!  We like to go early in the morning, before it gets too crowded.  Torsten wakes up ... http://www.talus-and-heavner.com/blog/2008/11/10/can-we-add-the-broken-arm-option-to-our-insurance/ The story from earlier this week (KINY Juneau news) is below.  Luckily we can have three more dry days this year (the last line of the report). The most recent update is: "Meanwhile, today ( Wednesday) is ... http://www.talus-and-heavner.com/blog/2008/10/22/thanks-goodness-for-that-we-can-afford-to-have-three-dry-days/ During Logan's goodbye party (we miss ya!), Torsten was checking out the rock collection--he was quite impressed.  He got Cathy (the expert--the new edition of her "Roadside Geology of Alaska" should be out soon!) to check it out with him: http://www.talus-and-heavner.com/blog/2008/10/22/torstens-geology-lesson/ Torsten is excited to be an astronaut for Halloween this year. He has a costume party to go to today so we put it on for the first time. We just wanted to share with you how cute he looks. We also had fun decorating his space shuttle! http://www.talus-and-heavner.com/blog/2008/10/21/halloween-is-coming/ The best time to visit Fairadise!  Carrie, Torsten, and Matt went up to Fairbanks in late September.  We stayed with Don & Anne (thanks for the great hospitality!).  We caught up with Dana, Martin (welcome back!), Curt (glad you were in town!), Gina, Harlow, Shawna, Blair, more, more, etc!).  We ... http://www.talus-and-heavner.com/blog/2008/10/04/fall-equinox-marathon/ 1) wifi should be free in all airports.  Juneau finally added it.  Anchorage provides it.  Albuquerque has it.  Seattle seems to still want to force folks to pay up.  More and more airports are doing it right though.  And hotels!  I'm shocked when hotels want to charge for networking, and ... http://www.talus-and-heavner.com/blog/2008/10/04/thoughts-from-someone-who-travels-too-much/