A festive dinner (Bob is an awesome cook, and Dylan desserteer extraordinare), but the meat of the evening was brainstorming message. Very hard work, especially for a place as confused as my work. But luckily the rain clouds formed, especially when the large sheets of butcher paper and sharpies came out and we started drawing pictures. As I used to tell my students, you don't solve problems in your head, you solve them with a pen(cil). I got to draw my axes, and we managed to get rid of the word "real." Can't wait to see where it goes next...