Blowing & Drifting

Today was a day of excellent variety, including starting a good book on East German sports doping, having a good conversation on long drives to and from a meeting in the northern suburbs of St. Paul, learning some good stuff in that meeting about an interesting grant program (drawback: the meeting was oriented entirely around a 190-slide PowerPoint deck, which, thankfully, the presenter didn't just read for four hours), discovering on getting back to the office that Carleton IT decided to grant my silly request for a second monitor (dual 17" monitors = lots of screen), cutting out early to have some fun in the gorgeous weather with the girls, enjoying a fantastic dinner of roasted fall vegetables (roasted beets = my new favorite veggie), doing just the right number of evening chores, taking a long nighttime run in new shoes and under a starry sky, and now watching a bit of baseball on the tube. A day well spent.