Sarah prepared another poster on her research for the conference. "I don't think that it is quite as good as my last one, but there is not a prize for this poster session, so I am resolved not to worry about it," she writes.

"Contrary to popular belief," writes Peter, "collisions of quantum diarists do *not* lead to any destructive side effects, even when nuclear physics is involved."

And in other travels...
Gordon Watts visits CERN, the European particle physics laboratory, for several days. He stays in a local hotel ("It has old world charm, but it is a dump by American standards") and learns the local customs ("The common knowledge around here is that all the important decisions are made over coffee").

In the meantime, Caolionn O'Connell learns some local customs in Japan, where she is vacationing. She finds the toilets particularly inscrutable, with their many "bells and whistles." "Never before has a toilet led me to panic," she writes.

José Ocariz finally gets out of the office and goes camping. "The thermometer was most often above 30 degrees (celsius), which is something I have not lived very often these last months: while at SLAC I spend most of my time in the BaBar control room, and here the temperature is rather 21-22 degrees."