Greetings from Batavia, Illinois, USA, home of Fermilab, where I’m visiting the Theoretical Astrophysics Center (and where I spent a lot of time as a graduate student back in the early 1990s). Since I got here late last week, I’ve cycled 50 miles up and down the Lake Michigan Lakefront, given a talk on Gravitational Radiation from Binary Supermassive Black Holes (mostly work done with my former student, DD), and am now safely ensconced in a hotel situated amongst the cornfields, collider rings and buffalo herds.

Note: I may be trying to upgrade to a new version of my blogging software over the next week or so, so apologies in advance when and if something goes wrong…