Although the work I do has nothing to do with particle physics, the other day my colleagues and I discovered a number of new elementary particles. Along with the well-known protons, electrons, and neutrons, as well as the lesser-known families of bosons, mesons, and fermions, science is now able to describe the quantum world with a great deal more accuracy and sophistication due to our contributions of the clipon, the klingon, the tampon, the moron, the strapon, and the clapon (and its anti-particle, the clapoff). Pictured above is an artist's depiction of what a clapon might look like.

Actually, it's my conceptual flowchart map of the Great Baseball Journey, which commences tomorrow morning at 9am. For the geographically-challenged, we're looking at Minneapolis to Chicago to Detroit to Cleveland to Pittsburgh [no baseball] to DC [no baseball] to Baltimore to New York to Boston to Toronto to Chicago [again], with non-game highlights including Cooperstown and Niagara Falls. I only have one memory card for my little camera, which equals about 130 photographs, but hopefully I'll have enough decent images on my return, a week from Sunday, to make a mini-feature on the Journey.

Had a nice weekend up north. Points of interest: Brother turned 21; Father's Day; Hung out at Big Lou's; Dad caught a chipmunk in the garden and humanely relocated it; took a picture of Dorsey reclining on her new Special Bed, had lunch at the Great Wall with John P, just as we did during AP Comp in high school.