Busy week...I had a business trip this week starting on Monday. Just after work, another guy and I headed to Chicago to catch a flight to Sioux Falls, and drove to Sioux City. Tuesday morning we started with an initial supplier audit for a new electron beam irradiation company called NextBeam, which interestingly enough occupies a section of the building that Gateway 2000 computers used to have, back in the day. They've been gone a long time, it seems. The audit went on for a couple days and we went back Thursday morning. Also interestingly, the city is right in the corner of the state, so on Tuesday evening we drove from the hotel in South Dakota through Iowa to the restaurant in Nebraska. Took about 10 minutes. Had a really great meal that actually went over the expense limits, oops.... we also found a nice big nature preserve that used to be a homestead back in the day where we went for a 7.4 mile run one evening, just one big loop around the property.

Because the trip was over a Tuesday, I was missing the softball game, which turned out to be ok because the games were all cancelled due to heavy smoke from the Canadian wildfires. It wasn't in SD while we were there but it was awful in Chicago when we got back Thursday. 

Friday was a work group lunch get-together at James' house for smoked meat and Kubb, which is one of those games where you throw wood blocks at other wood blocks that you find at Menard's. It was a good time but I had to cut out a bit early to get ready for the big New Mexico trip tomorrow.