On Wisconsin!

It's been quite a while, but there's much to report. I moved to Madison, Wisconsin in August! Right now it's snowing in April. Oh what a crazy world. I'm working on hybrid rockets for a small research firm called Orbital Technologies. We're having a lot of fun right now, doing testing of all sorts of different motor configurations. Our company has both the most efficient liquid-liquid rocket engine ever built, and also the most efficient hybrid (liquid-solid) rocket engine ever built. That's pretty awesome. Most of our work is on non-flight weight hardware however, but I'm pushing for us to get into the design of actual flight hardware. I speed skate as often as I can. I went to the Pettit Center in Milwaukee on Saturday in fact, and I did some long track. (Usually I do short track.) I skated 500m in 43.6 seconds. That's not particularly awesome by todays standards. However, consider the following: (1) It was only my 3rd time ever on a long track. (2) I was not wearing clap skates, I was wearing the older fixed style of skate, which I borrowed from someone. (3) That would have been fast enough to win the 500m competition at the 1924 Olympics. :) So I'm fairly proud of that. All the skating programs around here shut down for the summer, so in the meantime (once the snow goes away) I am going to organize some regular inline workouts.