9 apr 2020
1833 napping
1922 going for a walk
2023 just about to eat dinner
2140 talking to Jack

Fact: There are regulations about how loud kids toys can be.  The approved levels vary depending upon toy type, but in general they cant exceed 85dB when measured at any position 25cm from the surface of the toy (ASTM F963-16).  Only issue is kids often hold loud toys close to their ears...

Food: bacon and lunch meat for lunch with lime aid and leftover steak, potato salad, some mini tater tots, and some fruit for dinner

Spent over an hour trying to globus to work on father's linux computer (named overkill).  Eventually gave up, after I managed to somehow remove everything from the path.  It only took a few minutes to fix but ls and cd not working is disconcerting to say the least.  Ended up doing the download to his windows machine instead.  134gigs of data is a beautiful thing.  did some work on Matt's sequences, took an all too short nap, and then went for a walk.  There were other people walking at the school so we had to do some dodging and route adjustments.  Bigger news though was the storm brought down the score board, tore off the dugout roof, brought down an outfield fence, and took down some pretty big tree limbs.  Maybe thats why all the animals were so noisy yestrday, they were trying to alert us that we needed to put them in their crates to protect them. Father and I aslo decided that schbert would be the last animal standing if they had to fend for themselves in the house, but that gray kitty would be the 2nd to last.  Dumas wouldn't stand a chance. 






8 apr 2020
1455 working on transcriptions
1811 working on transcriptions
2141 watching the diamondbacks beat the yankees yet again
2315 finishing up the transcriptions

Food: Ribs and potaote salad for lunch, chicken and rice caserole for dinner both with fruit.  Also, we only have 1 gallon of milk left so to save milk I had a polar eclipse for with lunch.

Fact: back in the day, cathedrals were used as hospitals during plagues so the fact that they turned Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine (apparently the largest Gothic cathedral in the world) into a field hospital to handle overcrowding in NYC has some prescient.  However, they didn't do this during 1918.  Its kind of crazy thinking about how I read so much about 1918 and now I'm living in a pandemic. 

Zoom lunch with the orn crowd, even Nate came this time.  Picked up ribs up the road.  they were doing a brisk business, pays to be the only gig in town.  After we ate i jump roped and then spent the rest of the day working on my transcriptions.  Father and I went for a walk since mother was busy with sewing and cooking.  trying to get those transcriptions done took forever today for some reason.  Once i started recording it started to pour.  we even lost power for a few seconds but luckily it all came back online quickly.  They were again using west morgan high as a landmark for storm arrival times.  I didn't get finished with my rerecording until about 4.  Then i couldn't figure out how to get the mp4 to save on mothers computer so i gave up and left it for father.  The big news though was our UCE plates are done!  I couldn't start the download though because I didn't have the right permissions so Rapid Genomics will have to add me.