- Skype conversation with a good friend (June 26)
- Preparing for the next step in commissioning of our radon monitor
- Watching my wife’s team play (and win one game) in the church softball league
- The opportunity to “keep the book” for our team
- Bringing snacks for our church
- Catching up with our friends at church
- Buying a needed supply for a dish my wife is making
- Getting a few treats while shopping.
- Shopping at the Farmers’ market new location (June 25)
- Kettle corn
- Grilling out for the first time this summer
- Conversation with friends over grilled dinner
- Safe drive to and from The Badlands
- Mostly clear and beautifully dark skies for the Badlands Astronomy Festival
- Seeing Saturn and Jupiter through large amateur telescopes, especially the Cassini Division in Saturn’s ring
- Two bright Iridium flares
- Seeing Pluto and 3C-273 (the first quasar identified, 2.4 billion light years away) through one of the telescopes at the festival
- All the beauty of the night sky, including the Milky Way
- Getting our upstairs bathroom cleaned
- Helping my wife get started on a project in the bathroom
- Learning how to cross the moat that was in front of my lab due to elevator shaft construction
- Food and friends at community meal
- The Clarinet Madness Concert
- Talking with friends after the concert
- More soil for our garden potatoes
- Enough fresh peas from our garden for my lunch vegetable for a few days.
- The moat has been filled in.
- Physics lunch club (June 27)
- My wife’s excellent lasagna at community meal
- Catching up with friends at community meal
- Sharing photos of our trip to Prague
- Complements on my beard
- Voting on upcoming NOvA meeting dates.
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
