Welcome Home and a Midnight Snack

As I type this, a certain very handsome scientist

is flying about 10,000 feet above my head,

soon to be landing in Houston!

He's spent the last 5 days in beautiful San Diego

attending the annual AACR cancer conference.

Can I just say it's an amazing time to be alive?

Sam is currently working on things from a bioinformatics angle--

the merging of biology and computer programming.

One presentation he attended talked about the future of medicine and how researchers are working on developments that would allow, for example, a parent to take a picture of a child's rash with an iPhone, use an app to answer questions and analyze the photo, and then get further instructions, such as "your child needs a urine test." A device could then be hooked to the iPhone to test the urine and a conclusion would be drawn, such as "your child has a urinary tract infection and needs antibiotics."

Isn't that amazing??

We don't know exactly where our path is headed in terms of a future career,

but there are so many incredible possibilities on the horizon.

Sam also presented his research at a poster session.

He flies with his posters in large tubes, and the other day

Wesley pulled out last year's poster tube from the closet and said,
"WHOA! Is this a kaleidoscope??"

He has got quite the little personality.

Today he wanted me to do something right away,

and I told him it would be just a minute.

He yelled at me, "NOW! NOW or I will DESTROY THE HOUSE!"

Yikes.

I am one happy girl to be getting Sam back.

I wanted to make him a "welcome home" treat to celebrate, but

a) he's off sweets for the month and

b) he won't be home until midnight or so.

So we will be enjoying a midnight snack of his favorite pico de gallo, "welcome home" style.

It's almost like cake, right?