No Steph, it’s NOT that Ringling Bros. & Barnum Bailey is coming to town and I’ll be able to visit with the family.

It’s Stevie weekend at my house. LOL

All of us have subjects that catch our interest and a couple people that make us stand in astonishment. Thousands of people from around the world jam Vatican Square each week to feel they were in the presents of somebody extraordinary. Your ultimate inspiration may be a head of state or entertainer or sport idol or whatever. Mine is giving a talk on Monday at a lesser-known, but heavy-hitting, local university.

When I’m not happily perving here at Pixies, I (just can’t stop) still often think about heavenly bodies. It seems 75 people from around the world have come together this week to layout some long term plans. [http://www.cwru.edu/pubaff/univcomm...3/cosmology.htm]

Tonight, I AM going to be present at the kickoff of Stevie Weekend here and hear what Steven Weinberg [http://www.nobel.se/physics/laureat...rg-autobio.html] thinks about it all. (and I do mean ALL ) The talk that I just want to sit back in my rocker someday and know that I was at will be given Monday evening by Steven Hawking. [http://www.pbs.org/wnet/hawking/cos...ml/hawking.html]

This may not be everybody’s cup of tea, but I can’t believe that it is happening in my back yard and that I just happened to have worked with some people that can possibly get ME access to such an event. It’s a BIGGIE in my book.

If there does happen to be any NPR (National Public Radio) fans of Science Friday, in our Pixie Village, it will be broadcast live from this conference tomorrow. (And I’ve managed to trick my way into this too. )

Now that I’ve jinxed my chance of getting to the talk on Monday by saying it out loud, maybe I’ll see if I can get those tickets to the circus.:bday:

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