The gun will fire, the crowd will roar across the start line, and inside of forty, maybe fifty minutes, we’ll be posing for pictures with our medals and eating our post-race snacks.

A few months ago we booked a cruise vacation leaving from Port Canaveral, Florida, a little chunk of land that is in booster-exhaust-sniffing range of one Cape Canaveral and the Kennedy Space Center.

But “very cool” to a thirty-something year old science geek and “very cool” to a five year old girl are very different things, indeed.

…all of it leading to me digging out my Sears-brand Junior Microscope Set from back when I was a young’un, dusting it off and seeing what happened.

Here goes: another list for my “week of lists” and this one revolving around my week-long family stay-cation. And I, the doting, geeky father that I am, thought I would share some thoughts not only on how we\’ll be spending some of our father-daughter time over this particular break, but that I would do so in the form of a handy list.

About a month ago I wrote a short post about reading through some of my old Calvin and Hobbes comics. By some miracle of the unintended combination of the right words and the information reliability score of this blog, that page …

Originally I had something entirely different to write here… and then, sitting out on a beautiful local sunny day I found myself thumbing through my Google Plus stream and finding therein a post something about the such-and-such greatest Calvin and Hobbes quotes. It immediately struck me that, despite owning a complete and well-read collection, I\’d not actually pulled those books off the shelf in a number of years.