Class day tomorrow, so been doing the reading. There's a bit of it this time around, with three classes. Plus, I hadn't gotten the books before the first day, so I have last week's in the mix as well. (We still pay for the books, but part of the program is that they buy the books for you, and they were available in the office during work hours, so I didn't get over to pick them up ahead of time.)

Had our small group again last night, for the first time in a couple months or so. We had dinner there too. We have a new couple, they have two small children. John was a little rambunctious again, those kinds of settings are a lot of stimulation for him, and it's hard for him to be still and not so wild.

In the episode of the West Wing for this week, they were following the candidates as they stumped through Iowa ahead of the presidential elections (in the show's timeline.) One campaign stop briefly mentioned was the Hamburg Inn, which is in Iowa City, two blocks from the physics dept. I went there many times. Good breakfasts.