Graduation!
My brother Matt graduated from Houston Baptist University on May 9th! I am so proud of him!! Here are some pictures of our makeshift highchair at his house and graduation.
I keep trying to upload older pictures but blogger is acting us again. Sorry for the delay. Be on the look out for pictures the next couple of days hopefully.
For anyone in Houston it won’t be news, but we have had a lot of rain here lately, especially 2 weeks ago. Each spring I do a charity bike ride from Houston to Austin, about 180 miles. This year, for the first time in the 25 years of the ride it was cut short. The day before and the day of the first part of the ride was a lot of rain. The rain and wind was so bad it messed up the place where we would normally camp between day one and day two. The winds tore up tends and the rain put a foot of water in the camp ground. At our house we had about 8 inches in an hour and a half. We had a lot more than that over the one day period. Here’s some crazy shots.
Much of our front lawn was covered in water.
So was our back yard.
Here’s our front yard again.
And someone on our street thought it would be a good idea to drive around. It was smarting to stick around where you were.
Here’s an while after the big part of the storm passed. The debris line shows how high the water got. After a while to let the water go down I drove up into town to stay at Kendra’s brother’s house so I could do the second day of the bike ride from the halfway point to Austin. On the way I saw lots of flooded side roads and flooded out cars
This is the ditch back behind our house. Our city is pretty poorly run and the drainage is part of the problem. The stuff in the middle there is some floating debris, but most of it is trees and such growing in our ditches due to lax maintenance. A lot of people’s houses flooded and people aren’t happy with the city.
On a lighter note Levi has lots of teeth now, and we have to brush them. Luckily he loves his toothpaste, so its not too hard.
These towels are a new addition. We got some regular towels and some hand towels. The hand towels get cut in half and become the hood part of the towel. My mom put these together for us and they’re great.
Here’s my little man with all his long hair done up in a mohawk.
Levi likes the camera. Unfortunately, he wants to play with it sometimes.
I’m trying to get a good shot of his shirt. Its got Yoda on it, and says, “Size Matters Not”. Its a line from the second Star Wars movie, The Empire Strikes Back.
Levi is so cute in some of his outfits. They make him look like a big boy. I had to bait him with a ball to get this shot.
Later he was reading so you could see it a little better. He loves books and loves reading with us.
If you are sitting down he’ll come up to you with a book and climb into your lap if he can. You are then supposed to read the book to him until he’s ready to leave.
Levi over estimates his running skills sometimes. He doesn’t have very good balance when he gets moving fast. A few days ago he got his first knee scrape wiping out on the sidewalk.
A few more shots from a coworker on our trip. This is me and one of my teammates in front of the 120 x 80 wind tunnel’s intake.
This is the opening for the wind tunnel. Its massive.
Here’s the intake that was in the background of that first shot with a person next to it.
Here’s another. Gives you an idea of how bad it is.
My work trip was to Ames Research Center for meetings with some people we work with there. Ames has a lot of wind tunnels used for testing. In the far background of this shot you can see one of the largest around. This is a 120 by 80 foot wind tunnel and it is massive.
We got a tour of the Unitary Plan wind tunnel. There were some cool pictures on the wall in the area. This is a shot of the Wright Flyer in a wind tunnel. That’s just cool.
This is the 9 by 7 foot wind tunnel in the Unitary Plan tunnel complex.
This is what the Unitary Plan looks like from above. Its a massive complex with three wind tunnels in it. The 9 x 7 wasn’t being used, so we got to tour it. The 8 x 7 is down right now and the 11 x 11 was being used for a sensitive test that we couldn’t see.
This is a shot of some wind tunnel testing for the space shuttle.
That’s a coworker trying to get out of the shot quickly.
There’s an idea of the size of the tunnel.
This is from inside the tunnel looking down the chute.
The other side of the tunnel.
And looking down.
Standing in front of the wind tunnel.
This is from inside the tunnel.
Here’s a capsule model used for testing. It looks like Apollo.
This is part of the outside of the tunnel. Its huge.
Here’s one of the turbines where the get the speed up.
This is the sign outside one of the other tunnels.
This is a shot of the door to the 120 x 80 foot tunnel.
I love this sign. NACA was the predecessor to NASA, so that gives you an idea of how old this stuff is.
And this is on the way home. Slot machines in the airport in LA. Crazy.
And a random shot of our dogs going crazy because a cat was on our fence. We have two cats inside that get no reaction at all, but this cat was outside, so they went nuts.
That wraps up my shots for the trip. I’m sure Kendra will post more.
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