Saturday, July 1 – Started the month with two finishes: Daisy Jones & the Six, which I enjoyed more than I expected, and my LEGO Millenium Falcon, which was exactly as enjoyable as I expected (also went hiking in a neighboring town and listened to the Revolution draw Cincinnati).
Sunday, July 2 – Had visitors in town, so even though it was rainy, we stopped by MIT/Harvard and ended up at Shake Shack for dinner, complete with milkshake.
Monday, July 3 – Quiet day at work before the holiday doing research and making general preparations for a future run.
Tuesday, July 4 – Celebrated Independence Day at Wegmans, then went home to do an escape room in a box (not as immersive as a room, but pretty well put together), and did my roughly biannual (6-monthly) file and photo backup.
Wednesday, July 5 – Back at work to make 20 L of buffer in a barrel.
Thursday, July 6 – Spent some time crawling around in the grass taking pictures of bees in the lavender.
Friday, July 7 – Leftover Olive Garden spaghetti and meatball for dinner.
Saturday, July 8 – Snuck in a hike featuring lots of toads and mushrooms.
Sunday, July 9 – Hot dogs and Long Trail Ale for lunch, then pickleball in the afternoon.
Monday, July 10 – Another long shift at work, including preparing a buffer we needed for the run on the day of the run itself.
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| LEGO Millenium Falcon |
Tuesday, July 11 – Put the run on pause to bathe everything in sodium hydroxide to deactivate endotoxin and reorganized our storage room (again).
Wednesday, July 12 – Finally managed to run our chromatography column while preparing to run a filtration for a different project the next day.
Thursday, July 13 – Worked the noon to eight shift to get the filtration done, but at least got dinner.
Friday, July 14 – Finished The Courtship of Princess Leia, my latest Star Wars read, which have all been surprisingly bearable so far.
Saturday, July 15 – Removed my poor fungus-ed yellow pear tomato plants from the bed, walked a nearby rail trail, and watched the Revolution beat DC United 4-0.
Sunday, July 16 – Reread some of The Light Fantastic, went to a Wegmans one last time before it closed, and ate an apricot.
Monday, July 17 – The first groups of cherry tomatoes started making their appearance.
Tuesday, July 18 – Multitasked (#efficiency) by keeping an eye on a column while also writing up endotoxin prevention/removal notes.
Wednesday, July 19 – Packed our first 5 cm column on the AKTA Pilot at work, then at home watched most of the MLS all star game, a moderately depressing 5-0 loss to Arsenal (featuring minimal Carles Gil and no Matt Turner).
Thursday, July 20 – Helped out with take two of a tech transfer run.
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| Lavender and incoming bee |
Friday, July 21 – Continued the tech transfer run, attended Lunch and Learn, organized the lab’s resin collection, and sorted paperwork.
Saturday, July 22 – Went blueberry and raspberry picking, ending up with almost 3 pounds of blueberries and a pound of raspberries.
Sunday, July 23 – Tried a beer inspired by Singapore, a coolpool pale lager that was part of Jack’s Abby’s Lagers of the World series.
Monday, July 24 – Interviewed a potential downstream process (DSP) candidate.
Tuesday, July 25 – Put my 6 years as a computational researcher to use by reorganizing DSP files all day (I finished my PhD with on the order of 10,000 files and I know what/where almost all of them are.).
Wednesday, July 26 – Dropped by Target on the way back from work to buy pants, then caught the majority of the Revolution’s Leagues Cup group stage 5-1 victory over Atlético San Luis.
Thursday, July 27 – Had half of an interesting taro/mochi bun for breakfast.
Friday, July 28 – Final preparations for our first 10 L scale run.
Saturday, July 29 – Made pancakes with blueberry compote for second breakfast, went for a morning hike around a pond to beat afternoon rain, and baked a blueberry lemon pound cake in the night.
Sunday, July 30 – Played pickleball and tried the pound cake.
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| Blueberries |
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| Blue jay |
Monday, July 31 – Discovered a stray sunflower growing in our flower bed and jumped into our first ever full 10 L run for one of our projects.
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