Birthday Greetings times 3

Good wishes for a delightful birthday and a fabulous next year to three wonderful ladies. callistabee (yesterday my time, today hers), corvideye and sismith42 (today my time, tomorrow their time zones).

Birthday Greetings times 3

Good wishes for a delightful birthday and a fabulous next year to three wonderful ladies. callistabee (yesterday my time, today hers), corvideye and sismith42 (today my time, tomorrow their time zones).

a combined progress report

It is a terribly painful process to take lots graphs from an Excel spreadsheet and bring them into another program whcih will let one arrange them, and text, and other figures, into an appropriate layout. The copy-paste part is fine. But, oh the delay that ensues whenever one wishes to save the new document! In the short waits that happen at each new "save" I've managed to take in another pair of sweat pants (this time mine, to fit me) and have made some progress on a nalbinding project. I also spent way more time today goofing off than I should have, due to wishing to avoid the painful process. Alas, it must be done, and in between avoidance behaviour, I've made some progress over yesterday and today. 35 of 95 figures gathered together and turned into pdfs. This is so not going as fast as I want it to!

The good news is that I've finally obtained the microprobe results from last week (he'd forgotten to transfer the file to my uni folder sooner), so this evening I have been happily processing the results and making graphs and aligning the graphs with photos of the garnets to see how the zoning patterns relate to the appearance of the grains. And, much as I suspected, there is a direct correlation between the chemical zoning and the circle of inclusions which I *thought* marked the core-rim boundary. Alas, when I just tried exporting the graph/photo as a single jpg to show what I'm talking about, it didn't turn out well enough to see anything, so you will just have to take my word for it, or read the thesis when it is done. :-)

It is amazing how much more motivated I was this evening after those results came in than I was earlier when the task was needed but painfully slow. But now I need a break, since I've done nothing resembling exercise all day, and it is time. Perhaps I'll return to work later. clovis_t wants to stay up to watch Obama's Investiture (ok, so it isn't actually an Investiture, but as a long time SCA person, that is how I think of it. Oddly enough, I don't think of it as a Coronation, as I've had "the US choose not to have Kings" drilled into me from an early age), which is at 03:45 our time. Perhaps I'll stay up, or nap and get back up, for it--I've never actually seen the ceremony used for such office changes, and it will be interesting to compare it to the ceremonies I'm accustomed to in the SCA. Pity the US, which supposedly keeps church and state totally separate, incorporates religion into the ceremony (with, at least, the swearing upon a bible). I'm used to religious free-ceremonies with our recreation of one of the the most religious time periods. But I guess it is these little ironies that make things interesting in this world.

a combined progress report

It is a terribly painful process to take lots graphs from an Excel spreadsheet and bring them into another program whcih will let one arrange them, and text, and other figures, into an appropriate layout. The copy-paste part is fine. But, oh the delay that ensues whenever one wishes to save the new document! In the short waits that happen at each new "save" I've managed to take in another pair of sweat pants (this time mine, to fit me) and have made some progress on a nalbinding project. I also spent way more time today goofing off than I should have, due to wishing to avoid the painful process. Alas, it must be done, and in between avoidance behaviour, I've made some progress over yesterday and today. 35 of 95 figures gathered together and turned into pdfs. This is so not going as fast as I want it to!

The good news is that I've finally obtained the microprobe results from last week (he'd forgotten to transfer the file to my uni folder sooner), so this evening I have been happily processing the results and making graphs and aligning the graphs with photos of the garnets to see how the zoning patterns relate to the appearance of the grains. And, much as I suspected, there is a direct correlation between the chemical zoning and the circle of inclusions which I *thought* marked the core-rim boundary. Alas, when I just tried exporting the graph/photo as a single jpg to show what I'm talking about, it didn't turn out well enough to see anything, so you will just have to take my word for it, or read the thesis when it is done. :-)

It is amazing how much more motivated I was this evening after those results came in than I was earlier when the task was needed but painfully slow. But now I need a break, since I've done nothing resembling exercise all day, and it is time. Perhaps I'll return to work later. clovis_t wants to stay up to watch Obama's Investiture (ok, so it isn't actually an Investiture, but as a long time SCA person, that is how I think of it. Oddly enough, I don't think of it as a Coronation, as I've had "the US choose not to have Kings" drilled into me from an early age), which is at 03:45 our time. Perhaps I'll stay up, or nap and get back up, for it--I've never actually seen the ceremony used for such office changes, and it will be interesting to compare it to the ceremonies I'm accustomed to in the SCA. Pity the US, which supposedly keeps church and state totally separate, incorporates religion into the ceremony (with, at least, the swearing upon a bible). I'm used to religious free-ceremonies with our recreation of one of the the most religious time periods. But I guess it is these little ironies that make things interesting in this world.