- Meeting with one of the people in charge of funding for my research
- Interesting closing talks at the conference
- Being part of a Wikipedia edit-a-thon in which I focused on the articles for Fermilab and the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment.
- Seeing friends and their new baby in the suburbs
- Shipping home some of what we bought in Chicago
- Safe and punctual flight back to Rapid City
- Safe and punctual shuttle bus ride back to our house
- Time to rest after the trip
- Meeting with a student (Aug. 12)
- Writing birthday cards for friends
- Finding everything I was looking for at Black Hills Farmers Market
- Carrying all of my purchases home on my bike
- Catching up with my parents over the phone
- Good food at The Well potluck
- Discussing ideas for our next series at The Well
- Lots of rain for our garden
- Some parts for my detector were finally ordered
- Compiling an almost-complete draft of our next proposal
- All of my colleagues who helped my student to take his Qualifying Exam without needed to drive back from Fermilab
- Progress on a proposal for the next project in my lab
- Biking home with my wife
- Good food at Community meal, including two German potato salads made by actual Germans
- Meeting the Couchsurfers staying with our Community Meal host
- Harvesting some ground cherries and tomatoes from our garden
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