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What a wonderful day!
Aug. 28th, 2017 11:06 pmWorking backwards of wonderful things from today:
Nyckleharpa night! Always a highlight--who wouldn't want an evening making progress on a sewing project while listening to Swedish folk music played by a room full of talented musicians?
Dinner! I lined a pie plate with bread dough, filled it with a mix of canned artichoke, black beans, tomato, and spices, then covered with more bread dough, brushed it with butter, and baked it. Yum!
Acroyoga! While the pie was baking Ellinor and I went outside and spent a delightful half an hour discovering that while we haven't had a chance to practice together pretty much all summer, the strength training she has been doing means that pretty much everything we tried we could do. So much fun to balance, upside down, my shoulders on the bottoms of her upraised feet, and then have her spin me around like a ball on a seal's nose. And then we practiced handstands going into forward rolls, and several times I managed to pause and hold the handstand for a number of seconds before rolling out of it.
Riding home! After a number of rainy and cloudy days in a row, it was really refreshing to leave work this afternoon to a clear blue sky paired with cool, comfortable temperatures, and it made for a really pretty tike ride home.
Good news from work! One of my colleagues, who is just back from a major geology conference in Canada tells me that she met people from the states who have developed a good sulphide standard that they are willing to sell, which will make analyzing sulphides ever so much easier.
Fun in the lab! The guy who fixed my laser last week, while I was on vacation, also made some adjustments to the system which makes it possible to get much lower power from the laser than hitherto, so today I had fun shooting at sulphides with really low powers (less than 1 J/cm^2). Tomorrow I will look at the craters in backscatter electron images on the SEM and see if we have solved the problem with too much melting under the laser beam.
Dried berries! When I woke up this morning most of the black currants in the food dehydrator were ready (and the last of them were done when I got home from work), so the container is now half full, and it should be pretty easy to get enough more dried before the berries quit being ripe so that they will last me till next summer.
Nyckleharpa night! Always a highlight--who wouldn't want an evening making progress on a sewing project while listening to Swedish folk music played by a room full of talented musicians?
Dinner! I lined a pie plate with bread dough, filled it with a mix of canned artichoke, black beans, tomato, and spices, then covered with more bread dough, brushed it with butter, and baked it. Yum!
Acroyoga! While the pie was baking Ellinor and I went outside and spent a delightful half an hour discovering that while we haven't had a chance to practice together pretty much all summer, the strength training she has been doing means that pretty much everything we tried we could do. So much fun to balance, upside down, my shoulders on the bottoms of her upraised feet, and then have her spin me around like a ball on a seal's nose. And then we practiced handstands going into forward rolls, and several times I managed to pause and hold the handstand for a number of seconds before rolling out of it.
Riding home! After a number of rainy and cloudy days in a row, it was really refreshing to leave work this afternoon to a clear blue sky paired with cool, comfortable temperatures, and it made for a really pretty tike ride home.
Good news from work! One of my colleagues, who is just back from a major geology conference in Canada tells me that she met people from the states who have developed a good sulphide standard that they are willing to sell, which will make analyzing sulphides ever so much easier.
Fun in the lab! The guy who fixed my laser last week, while I was on vacation, also made some adjustments to the system which makes it possible to get much lower power from the laser than hitherto, so today I had fun shooting at sulphides with really low powers (less than 1 J/cm^2). Tomorrow I will look at the craters in backscatter electron images on the SEM and see if we have solved the problem with too much melting under the laser beam.
Dried berries! When I woke up this morning most of the black currants in the food dehydrator were ready (and the last of them were done when I got home from work), so the container is now half full, and it should be pretty easy to get enough more dried before the berries quit being ripe so that they will last me till next summer.