It's been a while since I've written last and I do appologize. Not much has happened this week but I've still been too busy to write much...it's amazing the ironies of life. I've made a few new friends this week. One of them, Sebastion, is studying physics at the university and in two weeks he will finish his doctoral thesis and go to Stockholm to work for a Noble lauriate. He's writing his thesis on the effects of electrical and magnetic feilds on the electron re-uptake of highly charged ions in a storage ring. I don't have a clue what that means but it's been fun to discuss it with him anyway.

The simple physics haven't been all that nice to me this week, though. First of all, it's getting cold. I have no quarels with cold, in fact, I often prefer it to heat, but this is September! It's not supposed to be cold yet. Last Sunday I was also involved in my first bike wreck. It had been raining and the pavement was wet and in the process of jumping onto a curb, I lost control and ran into a light post. Injuries sustained: sore little finger. By far the largest physics problem I've had this week, however, involved gravity. Now don't get me wrong, I like gravity. I'm glad we have it. Sometimes I think, though, that a little less could be a good thing. I was in the warehouse on a ladder that wasn't very secure. It fell. It went one way, my feet slipped through and I went the other way, and there I was, hanging upside down. Fortunately, I was alone so no one saw me there. Injuries sustained: three small bruises on my right leg.

For all the quarles I've been having with physics this week, it's good to know that our God is bigger than all of that and he is here to protect me!

Health and Saftey
David