I haven’t been back to Naperville since I last attended a Braidwood collaboration meeting, a few months before the project was canceled by the Department of Energy without peer review. Yeah, I’m still harping on that, but it’s a point worth making (over and over). I’m here now to present the latest, hottest BaBar results in searches for leptonic decays of heavy flavor – B and D mesons. Delightful stuff . . . so tasty, and goes great with MILC (those of you in the lattice community – you know what I’m talkin’ about).
We left Madison as late as possible today, to drain every last happy moment out of the town. We hit some favorite lunch and coffee spots, then jumped on I-90E and started to Illinois. The award for “most amusing moment of the day” came after we hit the “welcome center” just over the Illinois border. The new ad campagin for Illinois is a series of posters, listing distances to attractions and sporting the slogan “Mile after glorious mile”. I quipped that it would be more honest if they just came out and said instead, “Toll after glorious toll.” All those tollways and off-ramp pay stations, and you can always tell when you cross from Wisconsin-maintained roads to Illinois-maintained roads. Want a hint? It’s the sudden jarring as even the most high-tech shocks give out, subjected to the ill-managed roadways of this state.
We’re in Naperville now, staying at a hotel sporting studio suites. Jodi and I each have space to whack away at our laptops!
