Weekend "off?"

At this moment, we are working madly on our "spearimint."   Actually, they are.  I am writing this.  Joe is grilling chicken.  Monica is washing clothes and making tomorrow's lunches.  Where's Lyle?  Really only Marsha is working on the write-up.  It is 7 pm, the night before we face the inquisition and we are still coming up with new ideas.  But more on that later.
Yesterday was the down day.  Lyle, Joe, and M&M went to Galveston.  They aren't telling me much.  I do know that Lyle's Emily managed to take time off from working on her PhD at Galveston's medical branch to have lunch with them.  (How we love it when our grown children manage to toss time our way.)  They explored the Strand, walked the beach, went to a movie, (Super 8) and played basketball.  Peggy, (your correspondent) went to Houston to visit son, son's fiancee (yea), cousins, brother, and the old homestead.
Did I mention that Joe has taken up running? Today consisted of Joe, Lyle, and Monica going to Luke's locker (a Mecca for running geeks) for Joe to pick up a new set of sneakers for his new hobby. A few dollars later Joe and Monica managed to walk away with new sets of running shoes.

I managed to coerce my brother John, my son Chris and his beautiful fiancee to come back to the hotel to see our experiment and meet the team.They were suitably impressed.
It was about this time that Joe came up with a fabulous idea for another way to create bubbles other than boiling...drop alka-seltzer tablets into the water. Really, science on the fly is a beautiful thing.  Although this is a great idea, this creates HOURS worth of work for Marsha who has to expand on our procedure for the Test Equipment Data Package (TEDP). (Even the size of the tablets must be included.)  She is in one corner with her head spinning while Monica just wants to go outside and play basketball. There is a convenient sports court located outside our door and it has been a nightly game of horse for Monica and the boys.  She wins every time. (She had me add that.)
Lyle's writing now.  I hope we are about to complete this very involved dissertation.  If it is not accepted, or incomplete, in the eyes of  15 NASA scientists, we are done, caput, over and out. I have confidence that the professionals among us will pull it off. It's 10 and Lyle and Marsha are still working. I am just going to keep writing a silly, little blog and feeling guiltier by the minute.