- Attending 3 of the faculty forums for SDSM&T Presidential candidates
- Good and short meeting about our department website
- Dinner with my wife before band rehearsal
- My wife auditioned for a solo in our upcoming concert
- My student returned safely from Fermilab
- Successfully accessing my grant account information on our school’s system
- Lunch conversation with colleagues about the candidates
- Good conversation about the “Spirit of Christmas” at The Well
- Emptied, cleaned, and stored our rain barrels for the winter
- Trimmed my beard
- Helped my wife with laundry
- Buying an outdoor antenna
- Buying some small needed tools for my lab
- Removed air conditioner from our bedroom window and stored it for the winter
- Interesting (and disturbing) seminar on abandoned uranium mines near Native American communities
- Finding a replacement while our department secretary is temporarily out
- Skype conversation with a good friend
- Getting fresh deionized water for our lab
- Harvesting potatoes from our garden!
- A friend and former roommate of mine, who is now a physics professor, received a grant for his “effort to develop coding tutorial videos aimed at the high school level, and free training sessions for high school physics teachers to learn to code.”
- My wife made delicious soup for our community meal
- Catching up with friends at the meal
- Indian taco sale
- Good meeting with student (Nov. 7)
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