16 May 2020

0201 trivia
0209 trivia
0422 watching house hunters reno
1945 drinking root beer with mother

Food: chicken for lunch scrambled eggs and sausage for dinner with fruit and veggies

Fact: About 123 years passed between Mout St. Helen's last ash eruption in 1857 and the large eruption in 1980.  The 1980 erruption was the most devastating and costly of any volcanic eruption in modern US history.  All of us also learned that Mother drove by it shortly before the eruption and saw it venting steam. No idea how we all missed that over these 30+ years. 

Woke up and was happy to see Dumas's foot didn't seem to be bothering him today.  We cooked up some chicken and it turned out really well.  Usually I'm not a huge chicken fan but this was pretty dang good.  Then I worked on some sequences for a while and kept up with the fanbirding chat group.  Mother also cut my hair so it is ready to be dyed tomorrow.  I took Dumas for a walk half way down the hill, then Schubie for a walk all the way down to the road.  After that I went for a walk down at the school.  All told it was just over 3 miles in about an hour carrying 45 pounds.  I also talked a bit to Lizzie about the backpacking trip.  The 14 day quarantine for all out of state travel to Alaska is renewed until early June so we will see what happens.  Father decided to deacon 2 Masses this evening and I was not happy and apparently neither was mother.  When he got home we had a talk about responsibility and why someone needs to take control of the situation rather than the free for all that is going on now.  Hopefully that works.  During dinner we had a froggie visitor which made us start talking about all our old frogs.  Father doesn't remember having the White's Treefrog, but he did remember nuc the Green Treefrog and of course Woody the Woodhouse's toad was a family favorite (who looked like Jabba the Hutt).  I also learned mother never lived in on campus housing which surprised me.  Finished up the evening listening to the yankees get destroyed by the indians.

15 May 2020
0042 sequence editing
0128 world of warcraft
0916 sleeping
2205 trivial pursuit


Food: ham with fruit for lunch and chicken and rice casserole for dinner with vegetables

Fact: The only two subways in Africa are in Cairo and Algiers.  The Cairo one opened in the 80s and Algiers opened in 2011 even though construction started in the 80s.  The annual ridership of the Cairo system is over 1 billion riders and Algiers is over 40 million.

Woke up for a zoom meeting with Drew, Steph, and Julie about atram.  Trying to figure out why some genes fail to assemble in abyss even when there are blast hits that read map.  After the meeting I tried a few of the things we talked about and sent the results to Julie.  Spent the rest of the day doing sequence editing.  Dumas's foot was really bothering him today so I only took Schubie on a walk.   Dumas seemed really sad so i gave him a rawhide to make up for it.  Then I walked around the high school.  Today I did 2.1 miles with 45 pounds.  Then it was trivia time.  The west coasters won although it took a while since we all kept rolling really small numbers and lots of missed questions.  There were a couple of really amusing ones, including eddie refusing to listen to Zac about Algeria's subway because he thought the answer was Libya based on the amount of corruption and resource extraction by their colonial governments.  After the game we had a long discussion about mustard greens, radishes, and beets.  My siblings are all strange people.  The other amusing thing was I learned today Matt has all of the user ids for our little group memorized since we are always causing problems and breaking things.  I like mine (77).

14 May 2020
0102 sequence editing
0729 sleeping
1352 sequence editing
1613 sequence editing

Food: pizza, fruit and vegetables

Fact: During the 1918 flu pandemic MLB games were played with all participants wearing masks.  They also moved the location from Fenway to the Brave's stadium since it was larger.  But between that, a lot of returning solders coming into Boston by ship, and a parade Boston became an epicenter of the epidemic.

Woke up and spent most of the day working on sequences.  At about 1630 I went to Decatur, dropped my office key in the mail so Cammack can clean it out for me, and then picked up a pizza at the Italian place.  I was supposed to be able to just have them bring it out to me but i kept calling and not getting ahold of anyone so I had to go inside.  Everyone was masked so that was encouraging.  I also took the puppies for a walk down to the bottom of the hill while carrying 45 pounds (so exactly 1 mile).  Listened to the Yankees get beaten by Toronto and educated the parentals over dessert on swifts and how they can stay airborne for months.  After this I talked to Jack for a while.