Camp Cherry Valley and the ICRC 2019
August 05, 2019 11:02 AM
Some quick shots:
In June, J graduated from his middle school, marking the end of our family's attendance at that school, which began when W entered Kindergarten there. It's been a long time. The end of an era.
The following week, W and J traveled to Camp Cherry Valley to participate in the summer's first week of the Advanced Camper Experience, Island Adventure program. We learned of the program through our association with the Order of the Arrow, with John W., who has been putting together the ACE program. Because our own troop would do CCV later during the summer (and has not normally done ACE), and because W would be busy later, W and J joined another troop for the trip over.
Later, in July, our troop took its own summer trip to CCV, and J was named Senior Patrol Leader, the same as W was a few years ago. It's the highest scout leadership position for the troop for the summer camp, and it entails some organization. I'm very proud of J, as I was with W. Unfortunately, I couldn't attend CCV this year as an adult leader, primarily because they needed the space for other adult leaders and also because I would be attending the International Cosmic Ray Conference in Madison the same week.
For my part, I attended the International Cosmic Ray Conference (2019) at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. I gave an oral presentation on cosmic ray energy spectra measurements by the SuperTIGER experiment; it was really an update of ongoing work. And I gave a poster presentation on ionic charge state estimates for the September 2017 SEP events. I had spent the days before the conference scrambling to finish the associated papers.
I also attended the Chicago dinner, and I spent many of my lunchtimes having brats and beer while sitting near the lakeside looking out on Lake Mendota. The weather was sunny and warm, but it wasn't the heat wave I had feared. I also struck out for some very nice dinners, either on my own or with my longtime friend Eric.
Unfortunately, I forgot to take a picture of my poster.
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Update on Rapidweaver: It looks like I'm sticking with Rapidweaver, at the very least because it's still being maintained and developed. However, I still dislike it not being a WYSIWYG application, and it seems very sluggish at times.
Update 2: I may look into Sparkle or Everweb, too, but those seem to be from smaller, independent developers. Not sure if that's a good thing or a bad thing at the moment.
In June, J graduated from his middle school, marking the end of our family's attendance at that school, which began when W entered Kindergarten there. It's been a long time. The end of an era.
The following week, W and J traveled to Camp Cherry Valley to participate in the summer's first week of the Advanced Camper Experience, Island Adventure program. We learned of the program through our association with the Order of the Arrow, with John W., who has been putting together the ACE program. Because our own troop would do CCV later during the summer (and has not normally done ACE), and because W would be busy later, W and J joined another troop for the trip over.
Later, in July, our troop took its own summer trip to CCV, and J was named Senior Patrol Leader, the same as W was a few years ago. It's the highest scout leadership position for the troop for the summer camp, and it entails some organization. I'm very proud of J, as I was with W. Unfortunately, I couldn't attend CCV this year as an adult leader, primarily because they needed the space for other adult leaders and also because I would be attending the International Cosmic Ray Conference in Madison the same week.
For my part, I attended the International Cosmic Ray Conference (2019) at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. I gave an oral presentation on cosmic ray energy spectra measurements by the SuperTIGER experiment; it was really an update of ongoing work. And I gave a poster presentation on ionic charge state estimates for the September 2017 SEP events. I had spent the days before the conference scrambling to finish the associated papers.
I also attended the Chicago dinner, and I spent many of my lunchtimes having brats and beer while sitting near the lakeside looking out on Lake Mendota. The weather was sunny and warm, but it wasn't the heat wave I had feared. I also struck out for some very nice dinners, either on my own or with my longtime friend Eric.
Unfortunately, I forgot to take a picture of my poster.
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Update on Rapidweaver: It looks like I'm sticking with Rapidweaver, at the very least because it's still being maintained and developed. However, I still dislike it not being a WYSIWYG application, and it seems very sluggish at times.
Update 2: I may look into Sparkle or Everweb, too, but those seem to be from smaller, independent developers. Not sure if that's a good thing or a bad thing at the moment.