My wife has gone off for two weeks to Wisconsin and Minnesota. Her trip is one of mixed business and personal events. First, she went to her home in the northwoods for a wedding shower. Then she’s off to Minnesota for a stint at the Soudan Mine, where her experiment is housed. Finally, she’s going back to Wisconsin for a big physics conference in Madison.
I’m left to my own devices for this period. The weekdays will be easy – I’ve got a ton of physics to keep me busy. The evenings and weekends will be a little harder. This weekend, for instance.
I had a long week, punctuated by seeing my wife off (never the happiest part of my week). So, I decided to keep my activities to catching up on small projects I’ve been putting off. I spent today editing some Handicam footage Jodi shot a few months ago at the Soudan Mine. I’ve put together a short little movie using Kino, a digital video editor for Linux. It’s got about six chapters of various lengths, and I’m currently converting it to a DVD. Not bad for one day!
I’ve also been cleaning out our home network and server. I’m planning to work on some Python code for a letter-writing campaign tracker for “open.cooleysekula.net”:http://open.cooleysekula.net. We need this for getting people to pledge to write, then follow up on, letters to legislators about important science issues.
Whew! Well, I’m going back to my “Nature” special on Himalayan snow leopards.
