Jenn & Romy

Instead of smiling for the camera, Romy fell asleep!

Romy

Romy's working in garage again, this time on the new Dingo engine that was supposed to be done already!

Romy & Jenn

Today we went exploring on Heness Pass Rd (the first pass over the Sierra Nevada mountains) which is today just a dirt forest road, and relaxed near Verdi Springs. Then we got "dunch" (lunch-dinner) on the back porch of the Delta Saloon in the old historic mining town Virginia City, NV, with the 100 mile view!

Jenn & Romy

Two years ago this day (link) I passed my oral qualifying exam at Berkeley. Today I had my first job interview at the Desert Research Institute in Reno, NV and I am soooo happy to say that it went well and everyone there was super nice, interested, and welcoming. Now I am eager to hear back to see what will happen! This is a picture of Romy and I happy that the interview is over and enjoying the sunset over the Sierra Nevada mountains from the 8th floor of the parking garage.

Jenn & Romy

We finally arrived at the Eldorado in Reno, where DRI is lodging us for the next three nights while I have my interview for a post-doc position in renewable energy research! Ahhhhhh! I am soooo excited!!!!

Jenn & Romy

There was an unusual amount of traffic today over the Richmond bridge on our way home from Dominican!

Jenn

Done teaching for the day at Dominican, and getting excited for my interview on Friday!

Jenn

Jenn practicing for her talk in Reno this Friday. She didn't want me to take this picture :)

Romy

I'm putting together the next engine for the race car. Slowly at the moment, but it's getting there.

Jenn

Jenn giving me the IV antibiotics through the PICC line.

Jenn

Jenn and I went to the Pacific Pinball Museum in Alameda today. They had so many old (and new) pinball machines, and it was all you can play! It was cool!

Romy

Game Over! Romy really liked this pinball game where you get to box fight a big Italian dude by flipping pinballs at him!

Romy & Jenn

We have to wake up early each morning so Romy can get his IV antibiotics, which go into his PICC line.

Jenn

Jenn pumping gas at the local Shell. Mirror shot :)

Romy & Jenn

Going to Dominican to teach physics this week. This is the only thing Romy has to get out of the house for while recovering (he works on Berkeley stuff at home).

Romy & Jenn

Romy had another CT scan today, so he had to come to school on the bus with me.

Jenn & Romy

Today we made coconut milk, mango, and honey smoothies in our VitaMix! They were good.

Romy

Romy's PICC line extension is protected by a sock.

Jenn

The Japanese man next to Romy's bed in the hospital gave me these flowers yesterday when we went home! He was so nice, and I liked him a lot. He was the angle of the dangle man, jesus christ man. LOL!

Romy & Cartoon Guy

Romy left the hospital today with a PICC line in his left arm. It's a catheter that was inserted into his bronchial vein. The PICC specialist used ultrasound to guide the catheter from Romy's bicep all the way to his heart. Now Romy could get IV antibiotics at home.

Jenn & Romy

Romy shouldn't be in the hospital anymore by this point, but now we're waiting on our insurance to clear his outpatient treatment.

Romy

Romy's looking a lot like normal - sitting and looking at imgur on the internet. We were lucky to have Romy's hospital bed next to a nice window spot all week.

Romy

Happy to have some real food now finally and get out of bed to eat! The board behind Romy lists the nurses on duty and the last time he had his pain medication (dilaudid, 7 times stronger than morphine!).

Romy

Romy can now have a "full fluids" diet, and he feels good enough to joke around!

Romy

Romy's relaxing with his Nevada book, all drugged up on pain killers and antibiotics. He will have to stay in the hospital for a while so his appendix could heal itself.

Romy

This morning I took Romy to the E.R. at Alta Bates because he was having pain in his abdomen. When they did the CT scan, the doctors figured out Romy's appendix had ruptured! Notice the pictures from last week, Romy looked totally fine and was doing everything like normal. He's had some mild pain for the past few days but no other signs of appendicitis, like a fever, nausea, etc. The doctors are stumped!

Romy

Romy sold the VW Bus interior he was saving for his baja bus project. We need to start getting rid of stuff though. . .

Jenn

Making some juice this morning with what veges and fruits we have still.

Romy & Jenn

The best fish tacos I ever had at Taco San Jose in San Rafael, CA by Dominican.

Romy

The new crankshaft came for the engine we are building for the Dingo car! Happy B-Day to me!

Jenn

I am sewing my name and blood type onto my race suit.

Romy

Romy hammers out the damage after the car took a roll!

Romy

Working on the Dingo at Prairie City. We have a race tomorrow! The carb is pouring gas into the engine and the clutch is all screwed up!

Jenn

Mike, our landlord, is selling the apartment, and it was officially put on the market today! The first open house is this Sunday. Kind of annoying. . .

Jenn & Romy

Riding the Hill Line shuttle bus down to campus. The camera I think is a wide angle!

Romy

Romy looking pissed about something! I don't know!

Romy

Some damn geography teacher keeps leaving his blow-up earth ball on the desk, along with crayons and all kinds of other crap. Romy started playing with the earth ball.

Jenn & Romy

Working like crazy to get the Dingo engine rebuilt in time for this weekend's race at Prairie City!!

Romy & Jenn

Romy sold the swivel seat mounts for a VW bus for crazy cash on the Samba! It's boxed up behind us ready to get shipped!

Jenn

Cleaning some pistons for the Dingo engine.

Jenn & Romy

Another cold one at BIKE PARTY!!!

Romy

Romy made a paisley design with the frothed milk this morning when he made my latte! So cool! He's a pro!

Jenn

I am washing the large graduated cylinder after I finished teaching the fluids lab at Dominican.

Romy

Today we decided to go hiking before school on a trail near the stop sign.

Jenn & Romy

Today is our last day with the Daewoo, which we've had for 12 years! I cried a little when I saw the new owners drive it away! But we really can't afford to have so many cars. . .

Romy

And the fig tree goes...

Jenn & Nicole

We are giving our fig tree to N&M while it is still dormant. Since we'll most likely be moving out from Oakland before next time the tree goes dormant, we wanted to dig it out now.

Jenn

I replaced all of the piston rings on the Dingo engine. We found one bad piston, and all the cylinders were bad!

Romy

Putting the Daewoo up for sale! Its on craigslist!