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kareinaI made it into the office this morning, where I managed to work my way through the first sub-section of the suggested edits to the results section of the paper. Hopefully I will go back tomorrow (ok, later today if one wishes to get technical about it) and do the next part. However, reviewer #2 (the one who was enthusiastic about offering edits to the text) is the guy that wrote the papers that taught me the techniques used to obtain the results for that section, so, although I haven't read ahead to see what he has to say about that section, I am expecting that he will have found quite a bit to say. (Does anyone else work their way through suggestions for edits to their papers on the first pass through like I do, or do you all read all of the comments first, and then go back and decide which ones to use?)
I don't recall if I have mentioned it, but I have been drying black currants for later use in my breakfast muesli, and the batch is finally done--1.5 days in the dehydrator is what it takes to get all of them to not feel moist. However, it is possible to remove some of them much sooner than that (and I do--I don't see any point in leaving them sit there once they have shriveled small enough that they can be forced through the holes in the drying rack). The large jar I am filling with dried currants is now nearly half full, so if I pick a few more to dry in the next batch it should fill the jar.
Today's progress on the stuff for Nordanil was focused on that shield I mentioned yesterday--I added a metal band around the rim, which should help hold it together, and drilled in some holes and added plugs to help hold the reinforcing ribs to the back side of the shield. Then we bought some white paint and I started painting the knotwork cat onto the shield. I had time for two coats of the white, and I will decide tomorrow if I need a third, or if I can get away with going to the blue lines for the detail work.
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lord_kjar fix that broken plow, again. This is the third time, and he is getting much better at it. This is the first time that I have helped, and he really likes the part where I hold the chunk of metal he is straightening up against the part of the plow to which it attaches so that he can step back far enough away to get a good look and see if he is happy with the angle yet. I can see how it would be difficult to hold it in place oneself, given that the metal is still hot and must be held with the long tongs.
This evening, after he went to bed (he has to drive to Kiruna tomorrow for work, which means eight hours of driving time plus doing the IT work while he is there, so he actually went to bed by 23:00) I happened to look at the Luleå annonsblad (normally it goes straight to recycling), and noticed that one of the jobs advertized is for an educator position at Teknikens Hus. I had lots of fun spending an afternoon volunteering at that science museum for the ForskarFredag (researcher's Friday) they did a couple of years ago, when I was still new to Sweden.
Therefore I wrote an email to the guy named in the ad under "more information", and asked him if he welcomes applications from people from out of the country. I mentioned that I have been doing research at the Uni, which means that I haven't had as much opportunity to speak Swedish as I should have had after 3.5 years in Sweden. I also let him know that I am interested in the position because I had so much fun at that ForskarFredag, but on that occasion, I spoke mostly English to the high school students, and I expect that with younger children I would need to speak mostly Swedish, and I concluded that bit saying that my Swedish is much better now, so perhaps I would be fine. Then I asked how one applies (the ad wasn't clear on that point), and if he would accept the CV in English. At least, I hope that is what I said--I wrote the letter in Swedish, and while what I typed gives me back more or less what I was expecting when I put it into GoogleTranslate, one can't always trust that, and, as mentioned above, my handy native speaker was already asleep. I have already had an auto reply saying that he is on vacation till 18 Aug (which is the application deadline), but that he would be replying to job inquires nonetheless.
If he does reply that will make him more efficient than my colleagues across the hall, who foolishly advertized that Laser ICPMS job I applied for with an application deadline only days before their summer holiday began, which is why they sent an email to all of us applicants saying that they wouldn't actually get around to doing interviews till August of September.
Now it is really late, so I guess it is time to do yoga and get to bed myself (note: I did, in fact, go out for a short walk before yoga last night after posting here that I planned to do so. Yay me! So far I have gotten out for a walk or a bike ride every day this month--way better than the four times I did that last month.)
I don't recall if I have mentioned it, but I have been drying black currants for later use in my breakfast muesli, and the batch is finally done--1.5 days in the dehydrator is what it takes to get all of them to not feel moist. However, it is possible to remove some of them much sooner than that (and I do--I don't see any point in leaving them sit there once they have shriveled small enough that they can be forced through the holes in the drying rack). The large jar I am filling with dried currants is now nearly half full, so if I pick a few more to dry in the next batch it should fill the jar.
Today's progress on the stuff for Nordanil was focused on that shield I mentioned yesterday--I added a metal band around the rim, which should help hold it together, and drilled in some holes and added plugs to help hold the reinforcing ribs to the back side of the shield. Then we bought some white paint and I started painting the knotwork cat onto the shield. I had time for two coats of the white, and I will decide tomorrow if I need a third, or if I can get away with going to the blue lines for the detail work.
Then I helped
lord_kjar fix that broken plow, again. This is the third time, and he is getting much better at it. This is the first time that I have helped, and he really likes the part where I hold the chunk of metal he is straightening up against the part of the plow to which it attaches so that he can step back far enough away to get a good look and see if he is happy with the angle yet. I can see how it would be difficult to hold it in place oneself, given that the metal is still hot and must be held with the long tongs.This evening, after he went to bed (he has to drive to Kiruna tomorrow for work, which means eight hours of driving time plus doing the IT work while he is there, so he actually went to bed by 23:00) I happened to look at the Luleå annonsblad (normally it goes straight to recycling), and noticed that one of the jobs advertized is for an educator position at Teknikens Hus. I had lots of fun spending an afternoon volunteering at that science museum for the ForskarFredag (researcher's Friday) they did a couple of years ago, when I was still new to Sweden.
Therefore I wrote an email to the guy named in the ad under "more information", and asked him if he welcomes applications from people from out of the country. I mentioned that I have been doing research at the Uni, which means that I haven't had as much opportunity to speak Swedish as I should have had after 3.5 years in Sweden. I also let him know that I am interested in the position because I had so much fun at that ForskarFredag, but on that occasion, I spoke mostly English to the high school students, and I expect that with younger children I would need to speak mostly Swedish, and I concluded that bit saying that my Swedish is much better now, so perhaps I would be fine. Then I asked how one applies (the ad wasn't clear on that point), and if he would accept the CV in English. At least, I hope that is what I said--I wrote the letter in Swedish, and while what I typed gives me back more or less what I was expecting when I put it into GoogleTranslate, one can't always trust that, and, as mentioned above, my handy native speaker was already asleep. I have already had an auto reply saying that he is on vacation till 18 Aug (which is the application deadline), but that he would be replying to job inquires nonetheless.
If he does reply that will make him more efficient than my colleagues across the hall, who foolishly advertized that Laser ICPMS job I applied for with an application deadline only days before their summer holiday began, which is why they sent an email to all of us applicants saying that they wouldn't actually get around to doing interviews till August of September.
Now it is really late, so I guess it is time to do yoga and get to bed myself (note: I did, in fact, go out for a short walk before yoga last night after posting here that I planned to do so. Yay me! So far I have gotten out for a walk or a bike ride every day this month--way better than the four times I did that last month.)