Candy overload

120 Kit-kats, 100 Twix bars, 100 Almond joy bars, 100 Butterfingers, 100 Babe ruth bars, 100 York peppermint patties, 100 Hershey bars, 100 Crunch bars, 5L miscellaneous candy and counting....

Preparations for Halloween are well underway here at the Biedron-Milton household where I'm staying the weekend.

GUP. Done. Yay!

As of 4 minutes ago, I've submitted my GUP. That's a General User Proposal for experiments at the Advanced Photon Source. Obviously my last experiment wasn't horrible enough to put me off synchrotrons forever.

Anyway.... Its POETS day. I'm off.

Total Lunar Eclipse

Last night's evening news reminded me to poke my head outside and check out the lunar eclipse. I obviously wasn't the only one watch abc as I was soon joined by other another Lodger.

If you missed it, here's a picture.

In other exciting news the Boston Red Sox won the World Series breaking the curse of the Bambino which dates back to 1918 when they traded Babe Ruth to the New York Yankees. They staged a historic comeback from 3 games down (in a 7 game series) against arch rivals the Yankees in the semis, taking the next 8 games and beating the Cardinals for the title.

Autumn colour at Argonne. 

Testing

This is my first test posting.

Pick a Brick

The Lego store on North Michigan Avenue has all sorts of fun stuff for kids of all ages including a mix-your-own Pick A Brick section.