H is off to Toronto, and he will not be back until Thursday, so I'm parenting on my own a few days. H is actually going to teach today, but he has to drive straight to the main (most crowded/busy) airport in Houston directly after school, fly late into the night, with a layover, have meetings on Wed. and fly back on Thursday.

He has to be sick or have family issues for school not to dock his pay. It is a fundraising trip for the company in India he is part owner of. The CEO there used H's grad school thesis to build a nanotube generator, one which makes the nanotubes with less junk in than compared to other production methods due to a fluke of not having enough money & clout to buy some chemical H used on the original (H got his PhD until a Nobel Laureate, so money was not an issue in that lab), consulting H on what might be most similar chemically but easier to obtain. The company is now trying to raise capital to build a demo facility in the U.S. Keeping production in India is cheapest, and that is where the CEO lives and has his family there. But they are talking of paying H as an executive and consulting him remotely should they get a U.S. facility (they've already consulted him remotely a lot from India), perhaps bringing him on board in a few years (moving out there), depending on how everything goes. The company has gotten good press in India lately; it has been around 8 years now, has won awards from DOW Chemical, other prominent companies in India. H will be meeting with some pretty high profile venture capitalists though it is a very last minute trip because the CEO couldn't get his visa to Canada quickly enough though he is in the U.S. now.

So things are looking up for H. I am praying he will get his job university teaching. He is supposed to hear from the dean today. Even though Beaumont is quite the commute, he has been told some professors do commute from this area, and work remotely a day, sometimes 2 from home, depending. And if it goes well, we'd move to Beaumont, not really much of a change from here, chemical manufacturing nearby and a hurricane prone region.

Two good job possibilities in the making, especially if the Indian CEO raises his capital; he is talking about paying H a really good salary for out here though it would have to go up quite a bit should they build their demo facility in Silicon Valley and want us to live out there, where housing is double, even triple what it is out here for just a 1400 sq. ft. house (which is what we have now).

I see the T this afternoon. Plenty of stuff going on to deal with.