NRC committee meeting

I was in DC for a NRC sub-committee meeting. Got to visit two of my favorite buildings!

921 Ost NW

Building Museum

At Kennedy Center

Here is Anne on the Millennium Theatre stage at the Kennedy Center introducing Wisconsin Polka Music! She also got to fly her kite next to the Washington Monument.

Back in DC

Ack is back in DC at a UCAR and DOE meetings and to receive NASA's Excellence in Public Service medal. Alana is not in New Orleans and Anne and Erin are visiting Ireland.

Ack is back

Ack was back in DC all last week chairing a NASA Senior Review panel. He and Alana got to spend some time together. They saw "Wolverine" which had some pretty good special effects. It also helped to interpret some later movies. For example, the woman he fell in love with, before losing his memory, sure looked a lot like Jean of the X-men. On Friday I also visited some museums, including the Museum of American History. This picture is of a tree that was 'cut down' by bullets in a civil war battle in a woods. I remember first seeing this with Tom Fusco and felt it was a good way to image how many bullets were fired during a rush through the woods.

Another visit

Ack and Anne visited DC (and Alana) again in late March 2009. Ack had a couple of meetings - one with NOAA, one with NASA and one with USRA. We stayed the weekend to visit with Alana, enjoy the cherry tree blossoms and look and houses/condos to buy. It was very nice to experience spring again!

Happy 4th of July

Happy 4th of July! Ack was at the Smithsonian and watched the fireworks with Alana on the Mall. Ack even watched a parade - without Anne.

We are Back...

... into DC. Anne came over the weekend to see a bit of the Smithsonian Festival, where Alana is working. She is now on a cruise with the Pryor family. Ack came on July 1 to first work with the American Meteorological Society workshop for teachers. He then is working at the Smithsonian Festival as a panel participant in the NASA exhibit. On stage on July 2, 3 and 4. On Wednesday night Ack went to the Shakespeare Theatre Company to see the Imaginary Invalid by Moliere. Argon was played by Rene Auberjonois - the changling in Deep Space Nine. Wonderful play. It is a bit amazing that a play written in French in the 1600s could be so funny today.