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Baby....
is still not here.  just about everybody I know wants this baby to come.  Of course, daemon82 initially wanted the baby to come on the 15th, so maybe that will be the date of arrival.  This would be appropriate as we just made dinner reservations for that evening.  No sense in the child waiting to throw off our schedule.  If you're wondering why we ( Read more... )

I haven't updated this in a while, we'll see what thoughts I put down today.

Baby
The baby could arrive at any point now, as my wife is technically full term.  I've told my bosses and they understand if I just kind of disappear for a week or so (or at least a few days).  The nursery is pretty much put together, however we still have quite a bit of ( Read more... )

Happy anniversary daemon82 !  I love you! 

Qualifications
So I had my oral qualifier yesterday.  Basically I had to give a presentation about something related to my work, but not a regurgitation of my Master's thesis, and not the work that i was doing on my Ph.D.  So I talked about convective fluid flow through nanoporous membranes.  This is really the basis for the work that I do, so it ( Read more... )

Rose Rifle
So the Rose-Hulman Rifle team had a meet at the University of Akron on Sunday.  Normally I don't really follow Rose sports, and I actually only know about this because the coach of the Rose Rifle team is a good friend of mine from when I was there (he was 1 year behind me).  So, seeing as I was in Akron on Sunday anyway (we go to church ( Read more... )

Broken Chip
So the chip that I had been working with, ~15 separate filtrate samples extracted and analyzed, is now broken.  the middle membrane is busted clean out.  So now I have to start over with another chip.  Hopefully one that has a higher filtrate generation rate.

Early Christmas Present?
So CCF is apparently now letting google talk through the ( Read more... )

Coat
My awesomtastic wife who is super-duper fantastical fixed up my green Columbia jacket.  I have a comfortable winter coat again!

Long days
Spent 15 hours at CCF yesterday.   It would have been about 6 hours shorter had the PraxAir delivery come at ~ 9 AM like normal, but I wasn't able to start the experiment until 3 due to waiting on a new ( Read more... )

 Let it snow
Well, we got our first snow accumulation of the season last night.  We had hail accumulation a few weeks ago, but I don't think that counts.  I was planning on taking the bus today, but after I got the snow off the Matrix (for daemon82 ) I was late for the bus, so I drove the Camry in.  We got maybe an inch on the ground, and about 2 inches on ( Read more... )

Funny Science
Quite possibly the weirdest line I've ever read in a scientific journal: ". . . the ChOx/ZnO/Au electrode is dipped in 3 ml PBS solution containing 20 ul horseradish peroxidase (HRP) . . . " - Singh et al. Applied Physics Letters. Vol. 91, pp. 063901-1 - 063901-3. 2007 (emphasis in the quote mine)

Clothing
For just about everybody who ( Read more... )