- Getting our environmental chamber moved into the lab
- The equipment that allows four men to move a 700 lb. box with only their muscles
- Interview with a potential new graduate student in my lab
- Lunch with a colleague and friend
- Good deal on fried chicken
- Movie night with friends
- Watching a VHS tape with good memories on it
- Defrosting our chest freezer
- My wife reorganizing the freezer
- Homemade waffles for breakfast
- Our new laser printer works
- A plumber to check the leak in our bathroom sink
- My wife ordered a new faucet for the sink
- She also found a new and unobtrusive TV antenna
- I started reading a new book: The Gifts of Imperfection
- Good discussion of mindfulness at The Well
- Buying the last unclaimed Hutterite Chicken Pie
- Attending the Martin Luther King, Jr. day service sponsored by Faith Temple Church of God in Christ, especially the choir and learning for the first time about Bishop Lorenzo Kelly.
- Presenting SURF research to the Black Hills Astronomical Society
- Many good questions and compliments after my presentation
- Two difficult but important meetings with colleagues
- Visiting a friend’s house for community meal for the first time
- Talking to a friend’s daughter about her desire to learn physics and computer science
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
