Anniversary

It was a warm October day, much like today, when Missus Icker and I were wed some fourteen years ago, in Schley, North Carolina, at my buddy J-skull's country home. Seems like just last week. We toasted each other with some bubbly wine and ate dinner on the back porch with the kids. I have a cold, and am working hard on a big project that involves creating a geological timeline of the history of the earth. The earth is four point six billion years old. I figure, if I can cram a thousand foot long path into my space (the front of Hilburn Hall, the geosciences building here on campus), that gives me 4.6 million years per foot, 46 million years every ten feet, and four hundred and sixty million years every hundred feet. You get the idea. At that rate, there will still be large spaces in the path where not much is happening, such as in the first billion years, when the moon was created, oceans formed, and continents arose. Dinosaurs would appear in the last twenty to fifteen feet. Humans, or hominid creatures, rather, would show up in the last six to twelve inches. I am thinking of putting some of the path underground, in a tunnel. I have a long way to go.

Married life has been very good. We are so happy together. We hope to go out and celebrate properly, maybe shoot some pool, this weekend.