- First drafts of proposal for the latest idea for my lab
- Tour of possible safety hazards in our radon monitor’s new location
- Date set for new siding on our house
- Good meeting about a student’s Masters thesis
- Good conversation and possible date to meet in person with an old friend
- New prayer app on my phone
- Planning for working with my students during the summer, when we will be on two different continents in three different time zones.
- Good discussion at the Wobbly Table group about how to not base our worth on the approval of others
- Reading a lot of the book Our Mathematical Universe
- Seeing Zootopia
- Taking the children of a friend with me to see Zootopia
- Trying the parmesan garlic popcorn at The Elks Theatre for the first time
- Cookout at a friend’s (May 28)
- Fascinating conversations about chemistry
- Sharing stories of fun parties from years gone by
- Harvesting our first kale from the garden
- Harvesting our first strawberries from the yard
- Playing catch and practicing softball fielding and batting with friends
- Having an makeshift ice pack for the brusies resulting from collisions of the softball with my arm and hands
- Going out for ice cream afterwards
- Having a job flexible enough to allow me to work from home when I discovered that I had two flat tires on my bike and only one spare inner tube
- Good weather for walking to the bike shop to buy more inner tubes
- Fixing both tires and riding to work
- Starting the fire over which we roasted marshmallows at community meal
- My wife’s mashed potatoes
- Meeting in incoming graduate student in another department
What I Have Read in 2017
Books I am Reading
To Read Next
Dr. Stephen Sekula- Bob on Books
- Jackie Lea Sommers
- Altered Faces
- Politifact
Networked Blogs
