today's ramblings
Biked 2 miles this morning. Didn't take all that long, but my legs were tired before I started, so I didn't do a 2nd loop. (I've mapped out a 2-mile loop around my neighborhood.)
Stuff in the lab has overall been going better than it was for a while. Most of my experiments these days are working, or if they're not, it's for an obvious reason. And most of my results are good. Good meaning either expected, when I'm repeating something, or showing a difference where we wanted one, when I'm testing new things. So I'm feeling a lot better about it. Of course, I still have to go back and try again on a bunch of things that have already failed at least 1ce. Not so much looking forward to that, b/c I don't know *why* those things failed. Banging my head against the same wall repeatedly is surprisingly less rewarding than making progress.
My mother had her hip replaced last week, and is already well on the way to recovery, b"h. There's no pain in the hip any more, she just needs to recover from the being cut open part. Modern medicine is pretty good sometimes. Now if only there were as easy a fix for my father's PD.
Right now I'm waiting for Noah to finish mopping the kitchen then for it to dry so I can make salad to take for lunch tomorrow. I meant to do it earlier, but somehow it got late. I got back from work close to 8. Then we had dinner and I did dishes. Then I watched a Daily Show from last week and crocheted. Then I putzed around online a bit, which was good b/c it reminded me I was supposed to go water some friends' plants. Which I then went to do. Then I needed to clean the bathrooms b/c I ran out of time before shabbat. That must have reminded Noah that he needed to clean the kitchen, b/c he was partway through that when I finished. So back to the computer for more wasting of time. But at least I remembered about posting more. But still, I was hoping to be done w/ the salad by now. Oh well, less sleep for me.
Stuff in the lab has overall been going better than it was for a while. Most of my experiments these days are working, or if they're not, it's for an obvious reason. And most of my results are good. Good meaning either expected, when I'm repeating something, or showing a difference where we wanted one, when I'm testing new things. So I'm feeling a lot better about it. Of course, I still have to go back and try again on a bunch of things that have already failed at least 1ce. Not so much looking forward to that, b/c I don't know *why* those things failed. Banging my head against the same wall repeatedly is surprisingly less rewarding than making progress.
My mother had her hip replaced last week, and is already well on the way to recovery, b"h. There's no pain in the hip any more, she just needs to recover from the being cut open part. Modern medicine is pretty good sometimes. Now if only there were as easy a fix for my father's PD.
Right now I'm waiting for Noah to finish mopping the kitchen then for it to dry so I can make salad to take for lunch tomorrow. I meant to do it earlier, but somehow it got late. I got back from work close to 8. Then we had dinner and I did dishes. Then I watched a Daily Show from last week and crocheted. Then I putzed around online a bit, which was good b/c it reminded me I was supposed to go water some friends' plants. Which I then went to do. Then I needed to clean the bathrooms b/c I ran out of time before shabbat. That must have reminded Noah that he needed to clean the kitchen, b/c he was partway through that when I finished. So back to the computer for more wasting of time. But at least I remembered about posting more. But still, I was hoping to be done w/ the salad by now. Oh well, less sleep for me.