Heading Home

Posted Sat Jul 24, 2010 in

I think we are 90 percent packed and will load the car and ship out within the hour. Wife is in the shower; Young Son is still snoozing. I don’t blame him — I’d sleep longer if I could.

It was a good week, if a tough one. The workshop went well and I think we’re organized and ready to finish one project (final report) and press ahead toward completion of the other. I have my marching orders and and ready to execute. That’s success.

This group of men is the only place where I can laugh about Klein bottles and five-dimensional hypercubes. The joke on the first one is that a Klein bottle is the only known device that can do something anatomically impossible — and does so continuously.

The joke about the five-dimensional hypercube is that we developed a grid of model runs that needs to be done and it occurred to me that we had developed a five-dimensional square matrix of points to be tested. That sure sounds like a five-dimensional hypercube to me.

Yeah, it’s a mathematician/physicist/engineer joke… so bite me.

There is a buttload (official unit of measurement) of work to do when I get home. I started reading some journal literature while here and will work on some more, making notes for the literature review. I’m using my iPad to mark-up PDFs of the papers while I read. It’s a test case to determine whether the device is a suitable substitute for paper. So far I think it is, but we’ll see what I think in another month.

I also have a handful of dam safety analyses to complete when I get home. I’ll fire up GeoRAS next week and get started generating RAS models to get the job done. In the meantime, I have a few more computations for the confluent flooding project to complete and finish that one up. It will be good to be done.

But for now, the road calls. It’s time to go home.