28 May 2020

0839 sleeping

1524 working on louse ID
1628 working on louse ID

2353 listening to the Yankees game

 

Food: clam chowder (with shrimp added) for lunch, burgers for dinner with fruit and lettuce

Fact: At the Queensland Police Museum there is a stuffed dog named Peter on display.  Peter's owner was suspected of committing a murder and the eyewitnesses all noted the dog when they saw him in the vicinity of the murder.  Peter happened to be infested with ticks, got sick, and the vet was unable to save him.  The investigators (who had staked out the house) exhumed the dog's body, took it to the Queensland Museum to be prepared and brought it in during the trial when asking witnesses to ID the suspect.  The suspect was convicted.

Woke up and found out my new shoes had arrived (much earlier than expected, since the ETA was the 2nd week in June).  They are nice and blue.  They will take a little bit of getting used to since they are a little stiffer than my normal shoes and also have a little more bounce to them, but I think they will be really good for hiking.  Spent most of the afternoon getting the trees ready for a South Texas louse project.  I also talked to Cammack for a few minutes since he got stuck having to empty out my office in the wildlife building.  I had told him I had 2 boxes of stuff, a print, and a bulletin board, but apparently he thought i was underestimating and brought more boxes.  He was rather surprised to discover I in fact really did just have 2 boxes of stuff.  Mother and I went for a quick walk since it was about to rain (and actually started sprinkling when we were walking back up the hill).  Shoes worked well, did a little under 2 miles with my pack.  Then we had some dinner while listening to the baseball game.  Mother had made mushrooms for her and father and they were super smelly, I had to sniff vanilla extract to get my appetite back.  Fungus is disgusting.  Tonight's game was the first of the Yankees/Astros series at Yankee stadium and Suzyn was talking about how the series the Astros had earlier had a series with the jays resulting 38 runs in 3 games.  Just wait until the London series with its 50 runs in 2 games.  Mother made a cinnamon roll coffee cake that was really good, but needed 3 times as much frosting.  When I told her this she was amused because the recipe actually had called for 3 times as much frosting but all the reviews said it was too much frosting so she scaled it way back.  She's so silly, has she ever met a recipe that I didn't think needed more frosting?  Then I talked to Jack for a while and finished up the evening with the rest of the Yankees game while working on my alignments.

27 May 2020

0207 working on sequences
0456 trying to go to sleep
0923 sleeping
0949 sleeping

Food: Clam chowder for lunch, hot dogs for dinner

Fact: The countries with the most airports are the US, Russia, Brazil, Mexico, and Canada.  The US is first, the order of the others depends on how exactly you count airports.

Woke up in time for the ANSP zoom.  Everyone was doing pretty well although one of Survi's friends has been missing since early Tuesday.  After that I did some work until mother asked me to go to the Dollar General to get cream of mushroom soup so she could make clam chowder.  I also got some root beer and hot dogs.  As expected I was the only person in the store wearing a mask.  More surprising though was the Baptists across the street saying on their billboard that church wouldn't start up until the 31st, much smarter than some other churches although probably still too early considering the fact cases are climbing here faster than the testing rate is.   Otherwise it was a pretty low key day since it was raining the whole time.  Dumas and I ran up the hill to burn some energy since he and I were both bouncing off the walls.  I discovered an 11 year old pointer ran in the National Field Trial this year, which isn't too surprising.  The parentals and I tried getting the treadmill running but that is going to require some replacement parts.  Father and I think the barn would make an awesome home gym.  After dinner we played trivia.  Even with Ron (who answered a ton of questions we came in last).  The only other fun thing was grey kittie has decided he likes sharing Dumas's mat which has created a ton of adorable pictures. Who said puppies and kitties can't be friends?

26 May 2020

0406 working on sequences
0639 sleeping
1246 sleeping
2315 working on sequences

Food: leftover steak for lunch and leftover pork chop for dinner with fruit and veggies

Fact: NYC spends and estimated 300 million a year fixing damage done to underground infrastructure, mainly caused by the fact there is no single map of what is where (not to mention the fact some stuff isn't known at all).  The first attempt to use GIS to make a NYC infrastructure map was done by combining the water and sewer maps (although this didn't even happen until the sewer people were forced to participate).  The resulting map was even useful for predicting West Nile Virus based on where water might pool.  Interestingly 9/11 was both a wake up call and a hindrance to trying to get all infrastructure on a map.  On one hand the map (which was in progress) was useful to determine how to proceed with rescues and also to identify the location of a large Freon tank at the world trade center site (which if it had been heated by the fires and exploded would have been catastrophic).  But on the flip side suddenly the various groups realized potential security risks from sharing data, for example Con Ed bailed on adding their infrastructure to the map. 

Woke up and spent most of the day either working on NSF grant stuff or sequence alignments.   It was raining basically all day so we weren't able to go on a long walk.  I did some jump roping however (36 was my maximum in a row) and took Dumas on a short walk down the hill.  Schubert looked at me like I was crazy when I tried to take her.  I also think she officially has twirling down so mother recorded it for the others to be impressed by.  Tonight's baseball game was yankees/rays and we won moving us further into 1st.  Suzyn and John kept talking about how much they will miss Maybin since there is no way he would clear wavers when he got sent down for Judge. Knowing how everything played out makes listening to the games rather amusing at times.