Winter break

The working life is great and all but I sure miss having weeks off for winter break. I took three days off and went home to celebrate the New Year with my family. This visit was really nice - it was lovely to see my brother, my parents fed me yummy food, and I discovered a lot of cool things in Tucson or close by that I hadn't known about or been to before. Our visit to the Pecan Store and farm in Sahuarita revealed all sorts of interesting things on the way - the San Xavier Mission, an old mine, and a railroad. I feel like I saw the city through the eyes of a tourist and I definitely appreciated it more that way. 

Here is a photo of our New Years feast

Alas, after just six days, I had to leave behind sub-$3/gal gasoline prices, beautiful sunsets, and the comfort of being in a familiar place. I'll miss driving around perfectly parallel and perpendicular streets that never flow into other streets, curve unnaturally, or become insurmountable mountains putting strain on my little car. But I'll be back. 

In the last couple weeks of December, I somehow got a lot more work to do and everything is due either the sooner the better or end of January, so work has been kind of busy.