- Catching up with food friends in our spiritual community
- Watching Golden Girls with my wife
- Taking new pictures of our garden
- Sunny weather after all of rain recently (July 1)
- Watching my wife and her church softball team win two exciting games (July 2)
- Our large cheering section at the games
- Making progress on my tenure dossier
- Sigma Xi quickly resolved a problem with renewing my membership
- Day off on July 4
- Seeing the fireworks from the hill near our house
- Making preparations for an OS upgrade to my Entertainment PC
- Performing the OS upgrade and getting everything working again much more quickly than I expected!
- I think it is working better after the upgrade
- Helping my wife make pasta salad
- Harvesting peas fresh from our garden
- Seeing Venus and Jupiter in the sky in addition to the fireworks
- My wife cleared out some space in our house by finding someone who needed the two huge bags of packing material we had accumulated
- My first online sale via Facebook
- Watching my wife make some great plays in her team’s two victories in the church softball league (July 9)
- Teaching someone else how to “keep book” for the game
- Good group meeting
- The support of my friends
- New visitors to The Well
- The electrical work in my lab is finally finished!
- My students are making good progress
- Learning how to set up our department’s smallest telescope
- Getting some major housecleaning done
- Farewell lunch for a colleague (July 16)
- Lunch Club at Gyro Hub (July 17)
- The latest STEAM Cafe (July 17)
- Food truck at STEAM Cafe
- Being able to work from home or alternate locations in the EEP building while my office is off-limits due to asbestos removal.
- Taking the group photo for the GenCyber camp (June 28)
- Watching Avengers: Infinity War at the Elks (June 28)
- Picking up our serviced and repaired vacuum cleaner
- Making donations to local thrift stores
- Hosting dinner for friends at our house (July 6)
- Good food and catching up with friends at dinner
- Riding with colleagues to the Badlands Astronomy Festival
- A short walk in the Badlands before the festival began
- Helping my colleagues set up their telescopes
- Learning about our location in the Laniakea Supercluster during the presentation at the Festival
- Looking at Jupiter, Mars, the Lagoon Nebula and many more beauties of the night sky through mostly clear and dark skies
- Getting to know my colleagues better during our rides to and from the Festival
- Getting the lawn mowed (July 7)
- Good discussion on living authentically at The Well (July 14)
- Our latest student successfully defended his dissertation
- Useful feedback in the reviews of our funding proposal
- Dinner with friends at Baan Thai (July 13)
- Riding with a colleague to and from Neutrino Day in Lead, SD
- Despite some miscommunications at the start, the day went really well!
- “Quality control” on the liquid nitrogen ice cream other members of the department made
- One of the students made a lunch run for us
- Good questions and interactions with the public
- My temporary tattoo
- Meeting a friend for bagels (July 15)
- Our morning glories are blooming!
- Being able to capture a photograph of interesting insect life in our backyard; I think it is a cicada
- Dragonfly
- Taking the group photo for my wife’s softball team (July 16).
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