Unwritten blogs

Many, many, many times I have sat in a bus, train, car, etc. in the last year and thought about ideas for blogs. I have averaged about 3 ideas per day. Unfortunately, I have managed to write only about 3 blogs per month (this is a guess - might be 2, might be 4). There are never enough hours in each day. This month has been pretty typical in that regard. As a result, I thought that one of my last blogs for Quantum Diaries should be about blogs I wished I had written. Naturally, this list is pretty biased towards recent ideas (actually, they all come from the last month or so).

Blogs I never wrote but wished I had:

1. Trip to UBC in Vancouver for SNO meeting three weeks ago. Had a really good time. Meeting on SNO's neutral current detectors was excellent! Kudos to the organizers and participants. I love Vancouver - one of my favourite cities in the world.
2. Canadian general election on Jan 23, 2006. I'm not really excited by any of my local candidates. That's not unusual, but it is sad. Come to think of it, none of the major parties or their leaders are overly appealing either. Sad, sad, sad.
3. My first Christmas holiday away from Edmonton (my home town). It was really relaxing to be in Ottawa with just my wife, daughter and mom. I was also nice to have our first Christmas tree. I'm not Christian, but neither are Christmas trees!
4. The most recent remake of King Kong was a very exciting movie. Go see it if you like pure escapism.
5. Post-doctoral researchers at Carleton University don't get to use the athletics facilities without paying out of their own pockets. Embarrasing. I emailed the new university president about it a couple of months ago. It was news to him - hopefully this ridiculous rule is changed. Virtually every other University employee is given free access. This makes post-docs feel like second-class members of the University community. When this crazy rule was created, maybe someone in the adminstration decided that post-docs should be spending more time in the lab and less time in the gym.
6. The SNO post-doc collaborator with whom I do most of my work has just been offered a nice job at a different university. That means he'll be leaving SNO in the very near future. This is bad for SNO since he's made a very big contribution and does lots and lots of work on the software side of things. He's pretty much irreplacable at this point.
7. The Carleton-SNO group has hired a new post-doc. He started just a month ago but has been making good progress. This is good since he's supposed to take over some of my responsibilities (so that I can have more time to do physics analysis!).

I'm sure there are dozens of other ideas I could write down, but I am running out of time (as usual)! I need to check how far apart my wife's contractions are now...