Summer Time!

I survived an 8 hour exam! (Everybody can celebrate now)
The best part is that I feel confident that I passed. The premise of the exam is a little ridiculous: instantly know which formulas to use to solve the test question. For 8 hours. We're engineers, we are taught to think objectively to solve problems: Google!
"Gaze into my crystal search engine to see the solution!"

In celebration of my semester rapidly coming to an end, Sean and I decided to hold a beach party. Or more appropriately, back deck party.
Is there anything better to do on a sunny Sunday than barbeque with friends? The only thing missing was the kiddie pool filled with warm water.

The great American past time

You could tell that it was a man-sponsored event because the meal was mostly meat. Peppered bison steak, chicken kabobs, chicken breasts, and salmon. And chips and dip. Oh! And Kevin made amazing hand squeezed lemonade. Poor fellow didn't realize that we had a juicer. His labors were greatly appreciated, though.
We just got to sit around in the sun, munch all afternoon, and ignore homework.
To make it more of a beach party, Sean moved the truck into the back yard, we opened the doors and windows, then blasted music. Pretty sweet boombox, eh?

What makes a Nathan: Toys!
So I still suffer the urges of a boy when it comes to shiny things and other toys. I must have it. The trick is to resist the urge for meaningless things. (Hot Wheels and Legos are not meaningless and are great purchases at any time)

My new toy: a Garmin Forerunner 610

It's freaking sweet. It tracks total time, pace, distance, heart rate, percentage of maximum, time behind a virtual partner, where you're going, how you can get back to a certain place, where on a course you are... and so on. For both running and biking.
The best part: It's touchscreen.
It has too many features for mere watch buttons.

When your finished with your run, it links wirelessly to my computer and then uploads it to the Garmin website where it displays all this awesome information.

Definitely one of the coolest toys ever.

The 2nd mile here was one of my fastest recorded.