nothing for two days; electrostatics

For two days now I have done nothing but NSF proposing. I think it may be done, but by the rules that is not research! Today I went to a nice talk by Eric Dufresne (Yale) about electrostatics and entropy in ion solutions. Evidently there is a lot that isn't understood; what I am hoping is that this area of soft condensed matter produces some very general principles, the way that, for example, thermodynamics did at the turn of the century.