Well this is just ridiculous.

I could honestly say that this has been one of the most intense/exciting weeks since I was about 5 years old on Christmas Eve. THE MILWAUKEE BREWERS ARE IN THE PLAYOFFS. Who would have thought that I would have had to wait 25.5 years for this to happen again? There is a picture of my little sister and I sitting in a wagon in 1982 and I was decked out from head to toe in Brewer gear. And now I'll have to call up my sister again and find that wagon, get decked out in Brewer gear again and get another picture of us in that wagon.

I had just landed in Seattle when I turned on my cell phone and immediately called Dobbins to get the awesome/terrible news about the Brewers. I had a huge knot in my stomach. When he told me they are going into the playoffs and CC had a complete game and Braun had a monster homer to put them in the lead, I wanted to scream out loud on the plane...and then get tackled immediately by air marshalls. I think I texted "World Series or Bust" to everyone I know...and I'm telling you, Dale Sveum looks like a genius right now. And I will look like a prophet if the Brewers actually go to the WS.

I am going to Saturday's game and possibly Sunday if they win a game...correction, when they win a game. The atmosphere will be electric and the tailgating will be ridiculous. If you don't have tickets, just come and tailgate!

Can this week get any better?? No. Most definitely not.

Because I am at this conference at this beautiful resort in Blaine, WA and the sun is out and the birds are chirping, leaves are falling, mountains in the distance...and I just got asked to lead a focus group for 62 other substation engineers tomorrow at 2:30. Now, I just may be the youngest person at this conference and other engineers have waaayyyy more sub. experience than I do; like 30 years more. Why did they ask me? I have no idea. Everythign was going great up to this point. But I said yes and now I have to figure out what to discuss for 2 hours. But if this was last year, I would have said "no" for sure. Gotta keep pushing myself!

Yeah, this resort is nice, and the conference is very good, actually. I'm learning a lot. And the food is amazing. And they have hospitality suites every night.

On the drive to the resort I popped some "Death Cab" on in the car and drove on the "405" and drove through Bellingham where they are from.

I think either tonight or Wednesday night I'll head up to Vancouver for dinner. I heard the boarder crossing alone can take up to 45 min. We'll see. I brought my passport.

I'll put on some pictures in a few days, just like did with my North Carolina trip pictures...for real, I will.

The progressive dinner was fun on Friday, I was stuffed to the gills. We watched the end of the brewer game, played some risk and saw Camann drinking a beer on FSN. I lunged at the TV when I saw that, made Ed rewind his TiVo and he took a picture. Good stuff.

Buck, Ed, Tuck and I have decided to brew our own beer this fall. I'm going to brewer a porter (perhaps vanilla porter), Ed is going to brew an ale, Tuck is going to brew an amber ale, and I think Buck is doing a wine. And it will taste amazing hopefully. Really, how hard can it be?

Also, Buck and I are running for president/vice president in 2016. Our slogan will be "Let's use some common sense, people." It's a good thing I'm not running for president, because based on my Risk playing abilities, I will drive us right in WWIII. We need to start campaigning now! No, I actually wouldn't want to be president; could I do it from Wisconsin?

I saw this opportunity to remix a Radiohead song: http://www.radioheadremix.com/ and I started to work on it. Man, I have no idea what I'm doing. You download the individual instrument tracks and mash it up however you like and upload the song when your done. People rank it and then the band picks the best one out of the top 15 or so. I will get last place.

How about this for an idea: Transparent Solar Cells. So you could shine light through and induce a current in one cell and then induce a current in the one below it and so one. That way you could stack cells vertically instead of needing such a huge surface area. Heck, you could make bricks out of them and build buildings. I'm sure this is already patented, but if it's not, I better get on it!
Finally, a plug for Shawn's Peaches and Bobo site: http://www.peachesandbobo.com/ You'll laugh very hard.

OK, back to the conference.

WORLD SERIES OR BUST.