Things that make me happy...

Thank you MJ for making me smile after a very rough start to the week. This is one of the many reasons you are an awesome friend and will make a kick@ss crew member (and are officially in charge of morale and motivational phrases for the team ;-)

Are We There Yet? (RAAM Crewing Seminar)

On Saturday we attended the RAAM Crewing seminar held in our very own backyard of Austin, Texas. It was a great session and answered many questions we had (How to timing stations work? What to do to prevent saddle sores? What makes up a good team?). It also raised many more (Who will be our beneficiary? How many crew members do we really need? Will snapping rubberbands around our wrists really help keep us awake?) We followed the Saturday session with a Sunday team meeting to discuss these and many more topics. It seems official - we have a logo, we attended a crewing seminar, we had a team meeting. I think this means we're actually going to do RAAM. Oh, and Leary is on line right this minute looking at mini vans. He just asked me if I would prefer driving a panel van or a mini van. Um...how about neither?

In photo left to right:
Leary Walker*, Fred Huang*, George Thomas**, Vicki Ford*, Susan Farago*, Rick Boethling**, Fred Boethling**.
*Members of Team Galaxy
**Members of RAAM organization