The Neel Family

I am now officially traveling to Austin and will be there on the 17th and 18th.

Preethi and I sometimes have trouble meeting each other as we live an hour and a half apart (Blacksburg and Lynchburg). Tonight we're splitting the difference and meeting for dinner and a movie in Roanoke.

I umm... won't be filling in the details on what happens after the movie...

I'm tinkering with the template (trying to get the site to look decent). Two things I'm trying to do is post links to people's webpages on the sidebar (notice I've got a big 3 links up!) as well as find a nice picture for the title bar.

So If anyone has a) a digital copy of a picture of the old homeplace or a picture of everyone from a family reunion or b) knows of Neel webpages, email the pic/links to me (jody.neel@gmail.com). In the meantime, I may try to make do with a picture from the wedding. I'm also going to try and clean up comments so they display properly.

I may be traveling to Austin next week for the SDR Forum meeting (not a conference). The primary reason is that there will be a bunch of different groups there that I'm working with and with so many people in the same place, it makes the meeting rather efficient. I'll post more info on this later...

As an interesting aside, when I was in Austin this past spring, the official conference "social" dinner was at the Iron Cactus. It appears that will be the case for this meeting as well. From first hand knowledge, I know that there are other restaurants there. Really.

A few photos that I took on Christmas Eve at the house are posted on Ofoto.

Preethi and I went to Vegas for our delayed honeymoon from Christmas to New Years (I'm uinsg to term postneymoon as contrasted to a preneymoon). It was good fun. A lot of food, a lot of walking (the strip itself is quite long and quite a walk from casino to casino), and a little bit of gambling (mostly nickel blackjack). Some friends from San Diego also drove up and visited for a little bit.

We've posted some pictures from the trip on ofoto.

As many of you know, Preethi is from Tamilnadu, a state of India next to Sri Lanka. However, her family lives well inland from the coast, so everyone was ok and no property was damaged either.