Adventures in Onionism

Well this is jealousy-inducing. My knee is slowly recovering from Zion. I ran/walked only 9.5 miles last week. I'm also in the middle of a 5-presentations-plus-a-grant-application-in-8-days stretch. Sometimes I wish I were unemployed so I wouldn't ever have to go to any meetings and could just Stata all day long. I'm a terrible multi-tasker.

In abundance. Friends Hey little buddy, come out and play! I find that an effective commitment device to get grant proposal writing done is to tell heavy hitters that you're writing the grant, ask them if they want to sign on, and agree to meet with them in two or three days. So that's happening. It's another grant on food stamps research, and I also wrote one for a data science fellowship this week. Fingers crossed. Still, I had time for an excellent 20 mile circumnavigation around Briones Regional Park, as seen above. It rained down here, and snowed in the Sierras! Newts were out in abundance, as were the wildflowers. Lafeyette Ridge Trail is a pretty spectacular roller coaster, if you ever get a chance.