{"id":98,"date":"2021-01-17T14:00:49","date_gmt":"2021-01-17T14:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/engage.augsburg.edu\/zobitz\/?p=98"},"modified":"2021-01-17T14:00:49","modified_gmt":"2021-01-17T14:00:49","slug":"this-post-is-mundane-which-is-a-good-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/engage.augsburg.edu\/zobitz\/2021\/01\/17\/this-post-is-mundane-which-is-a-good-thing\/","title":{"rendered":"This post is mundane (which is a good thing)."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

We left Minnesota just over two weeks ago, and the news to report is that things are \u2026 mundane.\u00a0 Mundane in a good way \u2013 (1) my kids finished their first full week of in-person school since March of last year, (2) this weekend we took our kids to a\u00a0trampoline park<\/a>\u00a0to\u00a0burn off some energy<\/a>, and (3) we spent some of Friday evening working on a puzzle. We’ve been able to video chat (Facetime or Facebook) with our parents. In many ways our lives seems normal-ish, with the exception that we are half a world away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The start of a 1000 piece puzzle. One of our typical Friday night activities.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

After last week\u2019s fireplace networking meeting<\/a> I\u2019ve been busy working on my modeling.\u00a0 So far progress is good \u2013 I was able to work through a\u00a0snowpack model in a paper<\/a>, implement it and get some results (the image is for modeled to measured snowfall in Minneapolis the past decade).\u00a0 The results are \u201cproof of concept\u201d, meaning I still have the chops to code a model.\u00a0J\u00a0 On Friday I was able to sit down and map out some writing goals for my time here too \u2013 having this expanse of time to sit and think about science, mathematics, and modeling is positively indulgent.\u00a0 Usually this deep time doing research gets parceled or compacted away to an hour here or there and ends up as a mad frantic rush, so having 6 hours in one day (even sprinkled with a meeting here or there) does make me a little disoriented at first.<\/p>\n\n\n\n