- Seeing a total solar eclipse for the first time
- Enjoying it with colleagues and students
- Being able to drive people to the eclipse
- Having very little traffic on the drives
- Fun conversations with people on the trip who were very interested in dark matter and particle physics
- Dinner at the Central States Fair with my wife
- Finally finding decent fries at the fair
- Winning two blue ribbons for my photographs at the fair!
- Lots of good food, including turkey legs and funnel cakes at the fair.
- Discovering that a child magician performing at the fair is a friend’s daughter.
- My wife’s homemade sweet potato soup
- Meeting new people at community meal
- Good food and conversations at the meal
- Planning our writing tasks for our departmental review
- Catching up with friends at church
- Reading with my wife
- Signing up for band again
- Starting adult swimming lessons
- Buying small but necessary supplies for my lab
- Accidentally being an hour early to the Rapid City Community Conversations meeting meant I was able to help set up the room.
- Learning a lot during the conversation.
