2005
- January 23-26: Michigan to Los Angeles.
- December 9 - January 2: Egypt.
- November 24-27: Los Angeles.
big house.
- November 4-7: Los Angeles.
- October 22-24: Portland, Oregon.
- October 5-9: Washington DC.
- October 3
- September 30 - October 3: Los Angeles, California.
- September 23-26: San Diego, California.
- September 12-15: Amsterdam, Utrecht, Netherlands.
- September 9-11,16-18: Edinburgh, Highland, Scottish Borders, Scotland.
- September 5-9: Cambridge, UK.
- August 28-29: Saugatuck, Michigan.
- August 12-14: Wisconsin.
- August 6-10: Boundary
Waters Canoe Area Wilderness (BWCA), Minnesota.
- August 2-4: Michigan North
- July 31: Bronner's Christmas Wonderland,
Frenkenmuth, Michigan.
- July 23-24: Air Show,
Muskegon,
Lansing, Michigan.
- July 21: Manchester Chicken Broil, Michigan.
- July 13: fishing on a small lake in Michigan.
- June 17 - July 4: Los Angeles: auto show;
beach volleyball; Chinese food; fireworks; hiking...
- May 14: Michigan woods.
- April 26 - May 1: Los Angeles, California.
Huntington Library.
- April 24: April Snow in Ann Arbor.
- April 16: Impression of Detriot.
- March 30 - April 5: Los Angeles; Las Vegas;
Death Valley.
- March 11-14: Los Angeles;
Antelope Valley California Poppy Reserve.
- February 16-21: Susan's wedding, Southern California
- February 3-4: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland.
- Januarary 20-23:
Niagara Falls in the winter, Canada.
2004
- books and movies of 2004
- December 31 - Januaray 4:
road trip to Upper Peninsula and western Michigan.
- December 30:
Henry Ford Museum.
- December 25: no movie, no video for a whole year since
December 18, 2003.
- December 22-: mike
- December 19:
Tao, my version completed.
- December 9-18:
Santa Cruz and San Francisco, California.
- November 20-28:
Spain.
- November 8-12: DPS 2004 Annual Meeting,
Louisville, Kentucky.
- October 26-30: Pasadena, California.
- October 23: The
Elephant Vanishes, inspired by the collection of short stories
by Haruki Murakami.
- October 10:
apple picking, Michigan.
An apple a day, keeps the doctor away.
- September 24-27: cross country drive from Pasadena to Ann
Arbor.
- September 16-23: Hong Kong (I'm sick again!).
- September 4-15: Silk Road--Kashgar,
Turfan, Dunhuang,
Jiayuguan,
Lanzhou, Tianshui, Baoji, Xi'an.
- August 28 - September 3: family re-union, Beijing and Zhengzhou,
China.
- August 23-27: 2nd International Planetary Probe Workshop, NASA
Ames, California.
- June 29 - August 17: Rock climbing, Planet Rock, A2. Movie clips of Xu's
climbing
- August 13: Friday Night Skate, Ann Arbor.
- August 7-8: Rock
climbing, Red River Gorge, Kentucky.
- July 31: Steakroast,
a SCUBA party at Portage Quarry (Ohio) hosted by Advanced Aquatics
Diving.
- July 24-25: Rock
climbing, Red River Gorge, Kentucky. Some movie
clips.
- July 7-8: Towing a Sunfish,
from Ann Arbor through Madison to St. Paul and back.
- July 4: Scuba diving,
Portage
Quarry, Ohio.
- May 29, June 5, 12, July 3: Sailing, UMSC.
- June 8: Venus
Transit.
- June 5: Hiking, Pinckney Recreation Area.
- May 30: Scuba diving, Gilboa Quarry, Ohio. (movie clip 1,
2,
dive
profile 1, 2)
- May 12: awakening/enlightenment (please follow my blog).
- Album: Seasons on Porch
2003-04.
- April 26 - May 2: Holland; French
Rivera. EGU Assembly, Nice.
- March 21: The Dossin Great Lake Museum, Detroit.
- March 20: Midwest
culture: Maumee Wildlife Refuge, Ohio; Cabela's, Michigan.
- March 19: Cabaret, Ann Arbor.
- February 18-26: Puerto Rico: pictures.
- Januaray 24-25: snowshoeing and sledding at Biostation. (Photos:
snow song)
2003
- books and movies of 2003
- December 21 - Januaray 1: Baja California road
trip, Mexico.
- December 12-20: Pasadena. Photos: Dance,
Curves.
- December 11: Amtrak Coast
Starlight, San Francisco to Los Angeles.
- December 7-10: AGU, San Francisco.
- November 25-30: Univ. of Western Ontario, London and York
Univ., Toronto, Candada.
- November 11:
Doudou N'Diaye Rose and Les Rosettes.
- October 31 - November 7: Mariko Okada & Kiju Yoshida at UM,
Japanese film events.
- October 18-25: Mars Express PFS meeting, Rome.
Frascati Villa Aldobrandini,
Baths of Caracalla,
no
subject,
more photos.
- September 24: Rumi: The Wings of Love (Muslim Dialogue Society
event)
- September 21: Galileo
End of Mission Jupiter Impact, JPL, Pasadena.
- August 17 - September 5:
Belize. Down the Belize River wiht
Tony,
Maya sites
August 15 - September 14: Guatemala. Guatemala wouldn't give me a
visa!
- August 2-4: Long Day's
Journey Into Night, New York City.
- July 23-29: Pasadena, California.
- July 12: $85 speeding ticket (70 mph in 55 mph), Fremont,
Michigan.
- July 3-6:
Ontario: Bruce Peninsula and Georgian Bay.
- June 22: Much Ado About
Nothing, Nichols Arboretum, Ann Arbor.
- June 6-8: Camping and
road trip to northern Michigan and Upper Peninsula (including
Paradise).
- May 25: Chicago.
- May 18: Hell.
- May 10: Chihuly exhibition, Frederick Meijer Garden, Grand
Rapids.
- May 4: Warren Dunes
Sate
Park.
- April 28 - May 15: beledi dance ("belly" dance or oriental
dance) class, Ann Arbo YMCA.
- April 24: Beer making.
- April 6-11: EGS-AGU-EUG Joint
Assembly: the
meeting, Amsterdam and Nice.
- April 5: 32nd Annual Hash
Bash (official
website).
- March 20: Ann Arbor
Emergency Anti-War Action.
- March 3-9: Mars Express
PFS meeting, Lecce, Italy.
- February 25-27: Southwest
trip: Utah (Zion), Arizona (The Wave), Nevada (Las Vegas).
- February 15: New York City Peace Rally,
a detailed account.
- February 8: Ann
Arbor Peace March.
- January: the
MLK poster - my coordinates: (x, y) = (5, 2).
- January 18: Plymouth Ice Sculture Spectacular.
2002
- books and movies of 2002
- December 25-31: Ecuador,
panoramas,
Photologue
- October 28: Flute lessons with Lori Newman.
- October 17-18: 34th COSPAR, the
Second World Space Congrss, Houston, Texas.
- October 6-10: DPS
2002 34th Annual Meeting, Birmingham, Alabama.
- August 11: Mountain biking and camping in Pinckney Recreation
Area.
- July 6-30: Brussels,
Paris, Italy.
- June 11-17: Graduation:
official
commencement site. I am the third to the last person
(19:30/20:12) in presentation
of degrees (RealPlayer).
- June 9: Eco Ride 30 miles. Pictures: taking a break, finished.
- June 8: Took sailing instructions from U of M Sailing Club. Hiked in
Bird Hill Park. Watched silent film with live orchestra playing
Wings at the Michigan Theatre.
- June 1: Crossed the border to have dim sum in Windsor and go
biking at the
southernmost tip of Canada's mainland - Point
Pelee National Park (pictures: tip, marsh, boardwalk, marsh pond, sunset).
- May 8-15: Zhengzhou and
Dengfeng, and family.
- May 4: Paintball
games with TANGO.
- April 11-15: Visitted Fresno, and viewed Saturn, Titan,
Jupiter and its four moons through a telescope.
- March 30: Biking in Gallup Park. First day of the rest of my
life.
- March 27: Bought a new bike: Raleigh M80.
- March 23: Short hike in Nichols Arboretum.
- March 17: Rock climbing at the Planet Rock,
A2.
- March 16: Canoeing on lakes in Pinckney Recreation Area.
- March 3: Sorted 3.5 years of
coin collection from my piggy bank: 1116 pennies, 414 nickels,
779 dimes, 1 quarter (oops), 3
canadian pennies, and 1 mexican peso.
- February 7-14: Colorado (hiking in Lost Creek Wilderness, road
trip, rock and ice climbing)
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