15 Apr 2020

1325 Having tacos
1721 Finishing recording my lecture round 1
1810 looking for birdies
2003 about to eat dinner

Food- tacos for lunch leftover ribs for dinner, with twice baked potatoes and fruit

Fact: The WNBA draft is the hardest to break into, with .87 percent of NCAA draft-eligible players getting picked. NBA is 1.2; NFL is 1.6; MLB is 9.5 based on 2018 numbers

Father woke me up at 545 because he couldn't figure out Dumas's harness.  Turned out to be a good thing because Mark had texted me to say he was going after Greater Prairie-chicken so i had time to move my budget pin.  Sadly he went to 3 leks and only saw chikens at 1, of course it was the one i couldn't fit if i went with the other 2 (which had more records).  Zoom lunch with ANSP gang, although a lot of us don't actually eat during it.  Sounds like everyone is preparing for this to last until June or more.  Had lunch, then worked on my lectures and the sequence runs.  Went for a walk (which may or may not be allowed, apparently the police sent some people home yesterday).  While we ate dinner we played trivia; Jimmy was the MC and we all emailed our answers.  We tied with Maria and Kevin for 2nd to last place.  We won the tiebreaker with an almost exact answer of the distance from NYC to London.  However the best part was Jimmy made a comment about it being as the crow flies, but not actually possible for a crow to do.  So when i send him our answer I also noted that its totally possible and not uncommon for birds to make it across and then mentioned the Crex crex.  So that got a mention to the group also.  Lastly I decided to be safe and wrote our phone number on top of Dumas's head so if he gets loose they know hes someones dog.  Luckily i remembered breeders always put the spots on the top of the heads before I did it, otherwise he might lick it off!

14 Apr 2020

1108 sleeping again (Dr. True called a few min before to say everything went well and to ask if we wanted her to take an absessed tooth out
1816  out for our walk
2348 Skyping with Dave
0106 Skyping with Dave

Food: lunch- PB and J dinner- tacos (and fruit
)

Fact A pilot study by Gül Dölen at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine found if you give California Two-spot Octopus ecstasy at a low does act like people on ecstasy and become more social, too high of a dose and they start changing colors at really fast speeds.

Had to wake up way too early (745) to take Dumas to the vet for his surgery.  Since it was cold in my room last night i used that as an excuse to sleep in the living room next to his mat and he was being a super good puppy.  Luckily the surgery went really well and I was able to pick him up at about 4 (after going to the post office).  Dr. True even gave me the tooth she extracted.  We should have the histology by the time we get the sutures out next Friday, but she said it looked all like standard thyroid tissue and not anything malignant so hopefully all is well now.  We can't have anything around his neck until after the stitches come off so harness time.  While looking for his harness mother found the kitty harness, so of course i put it on black kitty.  He was fine when i put it on, just moved around the room like normal, but as soon as i clipped a leash to it, even without putting any presure on it he started bucking like a bronco.  Hed buck, run across the room, buck and change directions in the air, run again.  Eventually he ran out the window and into the main house where he got the harness off. It was amazing.  Watched the Yankees eventually come from behind to beat seatle in a walk off.  Spent the rest of the evening Skyping with Dave.

13 Apr 2020
1258 Having lunch
1307 still having lunch
1627 working on my lecture
2231 watching the Yankees/Mariners game

Fact On 13 Apr 1939 Lou Gehrig hit his last homer, in a spring exhibition game, also Impaitents get unhappy below 45 degrees and should be brought inside.

Food: hot dogs for lunch, leftover steak for dinner

Woke up just in time for Zoom discussion group, then had lunch.  Spent the rest of the day managing the download and working on my lecture for tomorrow.  It was cold but sunny so i did some jump ropping.  Nothing spectacular but several in the 20 or so range.  Watched the Yankees/Mariners game which father called boring and then they started coming back but luckily we won.

12 Apr 2020

1329 experimenting with the upload
1625 listening to the game
2356 working on my lecture
0256 watching House Hunters Renovation

Fact Owls fly so silently due to at least 3 things- fringe/comb like structures on the leading edges of flight feathers (which i knew about), but also the super soft wing feathers (which is why I find owls so challenging to stuff, getting the fluf to look natural and not all over the place is hard), and because the the ragged trailing edge on the wing itself.  Other silent fliers, like frogmouths have the same set of adaptions, but since they aren't sisters related it's convergent. 

Food: tamales for lunch, lamb for dinner with twice baked potatoes, cauliflower with cheese, and tomatoes. 

Pretty lazy day other than the lamb extravaganza.  We were going to grill it but it was pouring, so father and i moved the gas grill into the workshop and figured we could grill in there with door open.  But then the rain came harder and we got stuck in the workshop.  A titmouse or something actually got stuck under the eves and spent a while flying back and fort before finally clinging to the wall like a swift.  Then we noticed the workshop was flooding pretty badly.  So we closed the garage door, but discoverd like a 3 inch gap under one side of the door so water was still flowing in.  Ended up opening it and stuffing a tarp under it then closing it again which worked pretty well.  The water was a couple inches deep though in places.  After that we decided just to cook the lamb inside.