Syzdekistan

The last couple weeks have been pretty busy with lots of work travel. At least I get to go to glamorous places like Laughlin (motto: “Where cocktail waitresses go to die”), Mesquite (motto: “Where cocktail waitresses go to die”) and then back to Laughlin (you get the point). One of the conferences was on native and game fish biology of the Colorado River (CRAB: Colorado River Aquatic Biologists). The other meeting was on terrestrial wildlife and plants on the Colorado River (this group has such an incredibly contrived acronym, CRiTTeR, that I don’t know what it stands for).

Hot Pregnant Wife and I also had the wonderful experience of helping give a weekend long presentation on communication techniques for married couples at Lake Mead. We presented with two other couples and a Catholic priest on how to transform good marriages into great marriages. So if you’re married and want to improve your marriage, sign up for a World Wide Marriage Encounter Weekend.

I’ve spent a lot of time in hotels and motels in the last few weeks. At least during the Marriage Encounter Weekend I got have a weekend getaway with Hot Pregnant Wife.

Besides an overnight field trip to Cottonwood Cove later in February, work travel will be slowing down for a while. Desert Tortoise Council is here in Las Vegas this year and I really don’t have any travel lined up after that except for field work. Although, I did get a call from the admin in the office wanting to know if I had a valid passport. That was pretty ominous…