Everything is better with butter

God said...

I shall bring a mighty flood upon you...



And there was rain.

A few of the ways I get pumped to write....

So, I try to get myself motivated to write early in the morning by listening to music as I am starting to work on my dissertation, these are a few of the songs that get me pumped:

"On The Run" by Gangsta Grass:



"Long Hard Times to Come" by Gangsta Grass



"Gods Gonna Cut You Down" by Johnny Cash



"Lay Me Down" by The Dirty Heads




-There are a lot I fire up early in the morning, but these seem to be the ones I play most recently. Hope you enjoy.

The curious tale of lazers and Bill's eyes!

These are the videos of my Lasik experience. I got it done yesterday. I am happy with the results although it is a bit more annoying and time consuming than they want you to believe. All and all I would recommend it to anyone. 

2 hours before:



Minutes before:

 

Hours after:



Day after:

Laser beams...

Today I go in for LASIK surgery. That is right, I will be having a large "cold" lazer cut a flap in my cornia (covering of the eye), reshape my eyeball, and then lay the flap back down. The end result should be (and if it is not I will be rich from malpractice money) 20/20 or better vision. My vision isn't horrible now, but it is bad enough I have to wear glass all the time and if I don't I have trouble functioning. I need to thank my wife since she is the one who decided this would be a great graduation present (reminding everyone again that I am not graduated yet), it will be nice to wake up tomorrow and not have to search for my glasses. I will post a couple videos documenting the goings-on.

Bill

Better never than late...

Videos from my trip to Denver to find housing, meet with my new employers, and get the T.V. I apologize that they are not as comprehensive as I would have liked. I kept forgetting the camera when I got out of the car. They are sequentially ordered, so the video at the top is the beginning of the trip.

 Full of piss and vinegar!


Seemed like such a good idea the night before:


Somewhere near the smiley face water tower:


Middle of Nebraska and Adult Fiction:


 Lunch, the most unimportant meal of a road trip and Colorado:


Conquering the interstate system:


 Axis at the 9 miles:
 

 At least the blood stains on the carpet matched the drapes...


 The worst part is the morning after:


Rocky Mountain High Five:


How big is that new TV you got?

Tipping point...

So I think I have finally plugged away at my dissertation enough to the where my analysis finally worked. I had been running into one stupid little problem after another (which I hear is how research with large national datasets tends to work). But as of yesterday I got my large model to run. I am pretty sure I did it right, but I am meeting with the stats professor on my committee to make sure I in fact figured it out. If I did run it correctly then I uncovered a relationship where parent-child relationship was mediating the relationships between depression and aggressive behaviors. More plainly put, maternal depression does not in and of itself lead to poor behavior outcomes in children, rather it negatively influences how children and parents interact which then influences aggressive behaviors in children. I realize that may seem like a *duh* statement, however, the type of data and analysis I utilized has not really been conducted on that relationship. (pause for the nerds in the room to applaud my brilliant feat) Well that is it, I am going to back to the lab (computer lab, but it still sounds cool) to run more analysis. If you are in McKay for some reason stop by and bother me.