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Yesterday (Tuesday) was the final choir party for the school year--the exchange students wanted one more before they go back to their home countries, so it happened. We hosted here at our place, so this was the first time we did a bbq here at the house. The house came with a grill, which we used for meat, and ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
lord_kjar already had an electric one (which he had never used before) his sister gave him, which we used for veg. We set up our sunshade in the yard, and spent the evening outside. We have a couple of Frisbies, and some of the kids brought others, so for a while the challenge was finding someone in the circle who didn't already have a Frisbee to through one two, if one came my way. I also got out the bag of juggling toys, and started teaching a couple of the girls the basics--just because I have never *really* gotten the hang of doing more than four or five exchanges with three balls doesn't mean I don't understand enough to teach. lord_kjar also set up his archery target at the bottom of the hill, and most of the kids took a turn trying a bit of shooting. It was a fun evening, but, unlike all of the other choir parties we have hosted, we didn't sing anything. Instead a computer hooked up to speakers played background music for us all evening, and, late in the evening, he played for us the edited version of the recordings we made last week. We sound great! He promises to get them on line sometime in the next few weeks (as soon as he figures out which server they should be located on) and I will pass on the link to mom and anyone else who wants them then.
The party broke up at a reasonable hour, but we wound up staying up late afterwards talking. As a result I didn't wake up early enough to today to even bike in, but managed to get a ride in withlord_kjar when he went to work. Despite being short on sleep I was doing great in the morning, and had energy to work until my 10:00 meeting with colleagues, which was my introducing them to the program I love so much for looking at my geochemical data. After the meeting I worked for another hour or so, then decided I was tired.
So I packed up my computer and walked part of the way home (got a ride fromlord_kjar, who was on lunch break himself) for the last 1.5 or so km) and then took a three hour nap. After the nap we finally downloaded the programs I need to take the script that lord_kjar has developed for me and use it on my computer, too. So now I have a way to automatically generate a pdf report on all the thin sections I have taken photos of. In theory there is one sample per page, and it shows the sample name, a photo, and the full description from the database. However, I still need to edit the text for a handful of samples, as those go onto two pages, and I don't think they should.
But now it is 02:00, and I should probably get some sleep (did yoga hours ago). Luckily, I am working from home for the rest of the week, so I can set my own hours. But next week I need to be on day shift, since I will be at a course in both Stockholm (Mon-Wed) and Helsinki (Thurs-Fri).
lord_kjar already had an electric one (which he had never used before) his sister gave him, which we used for veg. We set up our sunshade in the yard, and spent the evening outside. We have a couple of Frisbies, and some of the kids brought others, so for a while the challenge was finding someone in the circle who didn't already have a Frisbee to through one two, if one came my way. I also got out the bag of juggling toys, and started teaching a couple of the girls the basics--just because I have never *really* gotten the hang of doing more than four or five exchanges with three balls doesn't mean I don't understand enough to teach. lord_kjar also set up his archery target at the bottom of the hill, and most of the kids took a turn trying a bit of shooting. It was a fun evening, but, unlike all of the other choir parties we have hosted, we didn't sing anything. Instead a computer hooked up to speakers played background music for us all evening, and, late in the evening, he played for us the edited version of the recordings we made last week. We sound great! He promises to get them on line sometime in the next few weeks (as soon as he figures out which server they should be located on) and I will pass on the link to mom and anyone else who wants them then.The party broke up at a reasonable hour, but we wound up staying up late afterwards talking. As a result I didn't wake up early enough to today to even bike in, but managed to get a ride in with
lord_kjar when he went to work. Despite being short on sleep I was doing great in the morning, and had energy to work until my 10:00 meeting with colleagues, which was my introducing them to the program I love so much for looking at my geochemical data. After the meeting I worked for another hour or so, then decided I was tired.So I packed up my computer and walked part of the way home (got a ride from
lord_kjar, who was on lunch break himself) for the last 1.5 or so km) and then took a three hour nap. After the nap we finally downloaded the programs I need to take the script that lord_kjar has developed for me and use it on my computer, too. So now I have a way to automatically generate a pdf report on all the thin sections I have taken photos of. In theory there is one sample per page, and it shows the sample name, a photo, and the full description from the database. However, I still need to edit the text for a handful of samples, as those go onto two pages, and I don't think they should.But now it is 02:00, and I should probably get some sleep (did yoga hours ago). Luckily, I am working from home for the rest of the week, so I can set my own hours. But next week I need to be on day shift, since I will be at a course in both Stockholm (Mon-Wed) and Helsinki (Thurs-Fri).