It occurred to me several months ago that my plans for a quiet summer, leading up to the move to Dallas, were in terrible danger. A number of things have been delayed or added to the pile. As a result, my vision of a whole week off (or even a whole weekend off) started to vanish. This week, I am taking a few days away from SLAC, away from travel to a conference or to another lab, and spending some quiet time in an “undisclosed location” (pictured left).
Of course, by “few days off” I mean that in the physicist sense. I am using the quiet, out of my office and away from interruptions, to work on things that need focus. Proposal writing is my primary goal, but a number of other small things are also on the schedule. I intend to break up the writing with walks in the sun, coffee, and lunch breaks with my wife and her friends. I’ll return to home on Friday, just in time to go to sleep and wake up for my flight to Valencia on Saturday.
