6 May 2020
0240 sequence editing
1326 checking the sequence assemblies
1806 sequence editing
2009 eating dinner


Food: Pizza from a while back for lunch, leftover steak, beans, rice, and calliflower for dinner


Fact: The first living patients occurred in 1952.  We got the decade right in trivia, but we missed the exact year.  Apparently the early ones were not very successful and the first really successful one was in 1954.  This one was done between identical twins so there weren't the normal issues with tissue rejection


Woke up for the ornithology zoom lunch then had a quick meeting with Jason afterwards about the NSF grant.  Then I had some lunch and worked on the UCE spreadsheets.  I'm trying to figure out if there is any rhyme or reason to which things failed or didn't sequence as well.  It only is sort of related to quantification values.  Otherwise I was dealing with lots of little sequencing issues and making sure the assembles are moving forward while taking breaks to do sequence editing.  We went for a late afternoon walk and it felt like a fall day.  I wore my new backpack but didn't put any weight in it, I just wanted to get a feel for it today.  Then we had dinner and played trivia.  We came in second to last but I was impressed we managed to figure out all 4 teenage mutant ninja turtle names considering I think the only time i saw that series was the day after aubrey, mika, and frank's 301 class turned in collections, and the whole group got together at Mika's trailer and watched them + crash while mostly passed out on the floor.  Hard to believe that was almost 15 years ago.  Our other victory was remembering the title to the book The Jungle (although I've never read it), and correctly guessing an album was by Lady Gaga.  We had put Dumas up in his room since he was being prancy and we were having a hard time hearing the questions, but about half way through he decided he had had enough alone time and let himself in through the window.  So i guess he has offically learned that trick.  Schubie has also started to get twrill for a treat down.  We had the Yankee's game on in the background and they won just about the time we finished trivia.


5 May 2020
1049 sleeping
1737 jumping rope/lifting milk jugs
2157 yankees game/sequence editing
2228 yankees game/sequence editing

Food: lunch- hot dogs, dinner enchaladas and beans

Fact: There are 109 miles of tunnels under Chicago that are used to divert storm runoff into 3 giant reservoirs where water is then slowly released into water treatment plants for processing.  Otherwise the entire system gets overwhelmed and peoples basements start flooding with sewage. This is the opposite approach taken by Philadelphia which has been installing green space and permeable sidewalks to try and keep rainwater out of the sewage system. 

spent most of the day editing sequences.  Since the weather wasn't great (it was misty and chilly) we decided not go go for a walk.  Instead I worked on my jump roping (multiple 20+ jumps), and then i did a round of the milkjug weight workout I found online.  To cap it off I also carried a 21 pound kitty litter jug in each hand back and forth from the front to the backyard a few times.  Since it is cinco de mayo father and I had Horchata 10W-40 stouts from HighWire.  What was funny was we drank our beer out of freestate tulips, while mother, who was having a freestate stout drank hers from an unbranded tulip.  We talked to Eddie after dinner and then watched the rest of the Yankees game.  Tanaka didn't have his best stuff and then Fraizer made an awful error and we lost.  For dessert we at the last of the apple crisp, I always forget how much I love that stuff.

4 May 2020

0143 playing World of Warcraft
1459 sequence editing
2124 Yankees game
2345 sequence editing




Food: lunch meat, fruit, and cheese for lunch, shrimp and asparagus for dinner

Fact: Bill Walton's dad made all the kids play in a family band.  Bill played baritone.  Apparently one of his biggest regrets was not making his own kids play instruments. 

Had the lab discussion group and then Matt, Sami, Renata, Jason, and me talked about the Rapid Genomics UCE results.  It would be really nice to figure out why some things didn't work when others that were of lower quality material did.  Then I worked on the sequences for a bit before going to pick up the new weedwacker and some other random things at Home Depot.  I'm loving the whole pull up, call and they drop all the stuff in the bed of your truck and you drive off thing.  Next I went to the beer store and picked up some beverages.  Once I got home and got everything unloaded we went for a walk.  The neigbors were also walking but we stayed far apart and yelled at eachother to see how they were.  Such strange times.  Afterwards we put on the Yankees game (they are playing the Padres) and had dinner then lounged until the end of the game. 

3 May 2020
1228 sleeping
1504 working outside
1719 churching
2052 listening to the baseball game

Food:

Fact: Apparently sometimes people use a reference genome to fill in the gaps, kinda like Jurassic Park.  This seems like a bad idea to me since we really don't know if the reference genome is representative of the taxon as a whole since usually they are picked at random or because they are already on hand.  The author of the book we are reading for discussion group also thinks its a bad idea. 

Woke up and had a fairly lazy day.  Did a little bit of work on my sequences, but mostly hung around outside.  I had to move the plant the squirrels keep attacking again since they apparently found it on the back porch.  Yesterday I put it in a hanging basket, but today I decided it was getting too much sun there so had to move it closer to the house.  Then father said he didn't like where i put it because it was "over" the bench.  It wasn't.  But he made me move it one row over so now it feels like it is randomly hanging over the door or at best floating in space.  Mother agrees with me but father thinks she is just siding with me cause she always agrees with the kids.  Then we had our communion service with the rest of the family, talked a bit, and then we all went our separate ways.  We put on the yankees game and I spent the rest of the evening working on the sequences.