@mcnees My kids have been hilariously delighted about playing Oregon Trail here: https://classicreload.com/oregon-trail.html

Tomorrow I have an interview with a local TV station talking about cool astronomy things happening in 2023 that are visible from Saskatchewan (Moon occulting Jupiter, partial solar eclipse, maybe Comet 2022 E3 ZTF, various meteor showers, auroras as we get closer solar max, did I miss anything?) and then I get interviewed about my research and career for a podcast. Hopefully will be fun and not stressful!

First interview happening in 3 minutes. Attempted to tidy up behind me since it's for TV, but man my kids are good at making thorough messes, even on bookshelves and vertical surfaces...

Aaaaannnd after all that last-minute worrying it turned out to be for a written article. Ha! Anyway, it was a great journalist who asked good questions so I'm looking forward to seeing what he writes up!

I even brushed my hair and put on a professor sweater. Headphones or no headphones? Scarf or no scarf? When was I supposed to learn all this stuff about how to present myself on TV?!

A lot of what I've learned about sun dogs (and other super cool rainbowy things you can see in the sky on occasion) comes from this really thorough, beautifully put together website: https://atoptics.co.uk/halo/parhelia.htm

So much good information here!

Well, during the podcast interview I got an email asking me to do ANOTHER local news interview. This one is on explaining sun dogs!! My favourite atmospheric optical phenomenon!

Today I have a summer research student starting and I'm going to have to let her in on the (somewhat embarrassing) secret that Fortran is still one of the fastest languages out there for what we need to do, then have her install a fortran compiler. Welcome to the future, student!