Vacation

First of all - Pipe Stress Engineering will be available next week. You can order your copy directly from ASME or at any number of book sites, including Amazon. Odd to see your name as a hyperlink.

My doctor told me on my last visit that he wouldn't clear me to go back to the office until this week. That meant I had to take last week off as vacation to avoid going on long term disability.

The first part of the week was pretty uneventful. Later, I spent a long weekend at Port Aransas. Sun and seafood should be a part of all recovery plans.

Sunday night I went to the Springsteen concert. I sat in the handicap section, so I had plenty of elbow room. Lots of parents with their kids; made me laugh. I've seen every one of his tours since the River tour in '81, including his stop in Houston last year. So this trip was more for completeness than anything else. He's not bad for an old fart. A man, a goatee, and a guitar. This is Seeds from the Austin show:



Because the Night is still my personal fave. He played it in town, but no one has uploaded it to YouTube yet. In the meantime, here's a good version of that song from the 2004 Rock the Vote spectacle: