It's spring now... by the way

Loads of new photos on Facebook

Winter Sports in WI

When I used to live in San Diego we used to talk about how cool it was that you could go surfing in the morning and hit the ski slopes at night. Think of the range of activities in one city!

Well as it turns out, the same is true of Wisconsin!

This weekend we had some larger than normal wind swell down on the lake, and lo and behold… surfers were out in the just aboving freezing water. Snow on the ground, ice just melted, crazy dedicated surfers!

What’s more, whne you simply turn 180 degrees you see the hill by our house. On it: sleders and snowboarders! All in one day… HA. How about all within walking distance!

Having a baby...

Is so exciting, and fulfilling, and time consuming and requires late nights, dirty diapers and washing everything…

... but you get to take a lot of pictures

Time sure flies by though…

Cathy’s mom has been staying with us for the past two weeks… after this weekend though – we are on our own.

There have been so many things that have changed in our lives, really too many to even bother writing about.

Life is better than ever

Loads of new photos

For those of you not connected to me on facebook – I finally got around to uploading a bunch of new photo’s of the new baby on this server (seems like work has blocked the port).

My favorites are here:

Announcing Our New Baby

Catherine and I are excited to share some wonderful news with you.

Ralph Jonathan was born Feb 21, 2009 at 5:34pm CST.
He weighed in at 5lbs 1oz, and is 19” long

He is here earlier than expected, but doing very well although he will need some time to continue to “feed and grow” at the hospital.

Mom is doing well, and we are anxious to get our baby boy home as soon as we can.

With love,

Dan, Cathy and Baby

Las Vegas - Words I don't understand

Last week I was in Las Vegas at the Stanford University Dept of Radiology PET-CT Symposia

If you want to be confused, you should attend this meeting as a newbie like me. This was a wonderful learning experience full of presentations on why PET/CT is so cool, what you can do with it, how to read the images, Q&A and a workstation showdown. I quickly realized that I was not the smartest person in the room, and that continued to sink in as a full 10% of the spoken words were foreign to me. Why is that? As it turns out I don’t know a whole lot about cancer. I’d never heard of adenocarcinoma or lymphadenopathy or a bunch of other cancer related terms. What’s exciting is that I will get to know them over the next few years. What’s not exciting is knowing full well that studies have shown that up to 2% of the healthy population, if screened for cancer on a PET/CT, would show positive results (meaning they have cancer).

Anyway – it’s an exciting field and the product has huge potential to improve patient outcomes. Event’s like this are a great way for me to learn more about it.

Anyone find my $78B dollars?

I seem to have misplaced it…

so has the treasury, when they overpaid by $78B using TARP funds to by stock in our various financial institutions.

I thought maybe I misread, or FOX news was just wrong… but CNBC and Reuters also picked it up.

someone’s head should roll over that. Call your senator. Call Chris Dodd at (202) 224-2823

Bad Customer Service Week

This week has been particularly difficult for customer service. I’ve had multiple changes to accounts, payments that weren’t applied, charges from 2007 that magically showed up, and on it goes.

Anyone else having a similar week?