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GG is a longtime skeptic and agnostic. She works as the VP of an energy company that specializes in natural gas processing technologies. She has also raised two good-looking skeptical sons. She blogs about nothing at www.twodifferentgirls.com

• Random Snacks in Venice

  By Geek Goddess on July 20, 2013 • ( 1 )

  

  Jeff and I got off the ship as early as possible this morning, on our first day in Venice. Even then, there were many people wandering about, and a longish line waited for the Basilica di San Marco to open…. Read More ›

• Coffee Break in Malta

  By Geek Goddess on July 18, 2013 • ( 1 )

  

  My friend Jeff and I are sitting at a noisy street side cafe in Mdina, Malta. In addition to the loud conversation of locals enjoying their early morning beers, a construction crew is working on renovation of a nearby health… Read More ›

• Packing for the Amazon – Epilogue

  By Geek Goddess on July 15, 2013 • ( 1 )

  A few months ago, I wrote a blog post about my attempt to pack very light. This was for my trip that included several days on a boat sailing around the Galapagos Islands with a group of 40 friends, sandwiched… Read More ›

• Off to Italy and beyond

  By Geek Goddess on July 15, 2013 • ( 3 )

  By the time you read this, I will have started a two-week trip that begins in Barcelona, hugs the coast of Italy,  stops in Kotor, Montenegro, and back. As part of a cruise, I’ll be stopping in Nice, Florence, Rome,… Read More ›

• Just the Facts, Ma’am

  By Geek Goddess on July 10, 2013 • ( 2 )

  The Short Version: What my version would have been: Your dad cut his hand last week, while working the yard. It became infected, and he’s been to the doctor twice. If it’s not better tomorrow, he may be admitted to… Read More ›

• One-Armed Blogging

  By Geek Goddess on July 7, 2013 • ( 2 )

  

  As I mentioned in a previous blog, I had surgery on my CMC joint last week.  It was an outpatient surgery, and I was out later that afternoon with my left hand wrist and elbow covered with a thickly padded… Read More ›

• Friday Fun Flick! What I Do for a Living

  By Geek Goddess on July 5, 2013 • ( 0 )

  Like most people, I have different circles of friends. Many of them I have met through professional contacts and are therefore in the same industry as me, but in the past few years, the bulk of my friends were met… Read More ›

• Invasion of the Giant Zombie Flesh-eating Cicada. Or Something Similar

  By Geek Goddess on July 1, 2013 • ( 1 )

  I spent part of my youth in West Texas. The background music of those years was normally Fleetwood Mac, but in the summer we set our activities to the sound of the cicada. Sitting in the backyard on dark, warm… Read More ›

• Eco-Lodge in the Amazon

  By Geek Goddess on June 19, 2013 • ( 1 )

  The last bit of my trip to Ecuador this spring ended with a few days at a lodge buried in the Amazon jungle rain forest. After landing in Coca, we were taken over two hours down river via an oversize… Read More ›

• I’m Having Hand Surgery

  By Geek Goddess on June 17, 2013 • ( 7 )

  So, later this week I’m having surgery.  I’ve had a couple surgeries before, but this is the first one where I feel like I’m actually having surgery. (Having my uterus snipped out a few years ago was a non-event. I… Read More ›