Journal

It has been an exciting couple of weeks since arriving at CERN. I have been bouncing from hotel to hostel, but mostly getting some physics done. I even found time to take a weekend in Barcelona and visit an old friend of mine. But, the work continues. Meantime, here are […]

It’s been a busy month, and the only reason I am pausing to jot all this down is because I have a cold, and I don’t feel like doing much of anything else. So, let’s do it! The month of May brought with it the end of teaching, graduation, family […]

This was an incredibly busy month, and I’ve only had time to slow down and breath a little bit this weekend. So let’s review – it helps to put things in perspective. The last 2.5 weeks were mostly filled with preparations for the end of the semester – the third […]

It’s time for another episode of Steve traveling backward in time! It’s my week in review, another look back at the week that was in my little web log. This week was one of mixed emotions. I’ve begun the last formal topic in my introductory physics course (optics); I received […]

The past couple of weeks have been extremely busy. Jodi and I were traveling last week, finally meeting up in Seattle for a conference; I gave my second exam in my introductory physics class; there were computer woes that greatly slowed down some ATLAS work; we had some car trouble […]

It’s that time again – time to think back long and hard on the week that was. The past 7 days were filled with something called “Spring Break,” though I haven’t worked this hard since the fall semester. While this was far from a vacation, it was productive. That wayward […]

This was a mixed week, filled with ruined plans and bad weather. Considering this week was the run up to Spring Break, it was a downer. There was sleet and snow; a power supply that never showed up; a backup power supply that FedEx couldn’t deliver as promised; more adventures […]