Tuesday, August 1 – At work for 11 hours straight running two columns at the same time, but still got home at a reasonable hour because I arrived at the office at 7 am.
Wednesday, August 2 – Despite the best-laid plans of mice and men, our purification started going awry even with all hands on deck.
Thursday, August 3 – Forged onward with our run at work and on an unrelated note, my first cherry tomato started turning red.
Friday, August 4 – Somehow made it to the end of the week with product for the client, slides updated up to the minute, a newly packed column for the following week, and a relatively clean lab.
Saturday, August 5 – Went to a park in a neighboring town and opened the chocolate (brownie batter) hummus I picked up at Target.
Sunday, August 6 – Put in a solid hour of pickleball before mentally preparing to repeat the previous week’s schedule.
Monday, August 7 – Started the week too tired to bother asking for dinner while working the late shift.
Tuesday, August 8 – Double column day went more smoothly than last week, which was good.
Wednesday, August 9 – It took ten hours, but we managed to squeeze in both unit operations we were supposed to do last Wednesday instead of delaying one to Thursday.
Thursday, August 10 – Broke out some freezer goat for tomato goat soup for dinner.
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| Mystery sunflower (see last month's post) |
Friday, August 11 – Wrapped up take two of our 10 L run much more successfully and cleaned up the lab before leaving for the weekend, having accumulated 16 hours of overtime in two weeks; also harvested my first cherry tomato, so it was a pretty good day.
Saturday, August 12 – Went for a hike and saw swallowtail butterflies and a giant hydrangea bush, then made pizza from scratch for the first time.
Sunday, August 13 – Started Champions of the Force, the last book in Kevin Anderson’s Jedi Academy trilogy (again, not too bad).
Monday, August 14 – Spent the day at work partially recovering from the previous two weeks making summary slides, preparing buffers, and working on freezer inventory.
Tuesday, August 15 – Had rice and beans for lunch.
Wednesday, August 16 – Returned to my standard peanut butter and jam sandwich lunch.
Thursday, August 17 – Tomato harvest began in earnest and my new laptop arrived to replace the 11-year-old laptop that held on through the end of my computational PhD.
Friday, August 18 – Went out drinking with coworkers to celebrate surviving the first half of the month.
Saturday, August 19 – Hiked at a property we hadn’t been to in years and visited the community garden.
Sunday, August 20 – Tried a new hot chicken place for lunch.
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| Tomatoes (and penguin) |
Monday, August 21 – Arrived at work to discover most of management was out with work-acquired Covid, but started round 3 of the 10 L run, minus the initial filtration step, anyway, at the same time as a reaction DOE (design of experiments) for our other project.
Tuesday, August 22 – Continued the run but spent a decent portion of the day hiding in the supply closet working on organizing files.
Wednesday, August 23 – Officially tested positive for Covid along with half the company, after stopping by the office to pick up my laptop, so went home to read the D&D player’s handbook, do laundry, and organize my room.
Thursday, August 24 – Worked from home doing endotoxin research.
Friday, August 25 – Another work from home day.
Saturday, August 26 – MLS returned after the Leagues Cup break, and the Revolution began their downhill slide with a 1-0 L to Montreal.
Sunday, August 27 – Discovered that Pokémon episodes were on Netflix.
Monday, August 28 – Back at work to find out what happened during the rest of the previous week and welcomed a new member to downstream.
Tuesday, August 29 – Enjoyed homegrown tomatoes with horseradish chive cheese for lunch.
Wednesday, August 30 – More labelling shelving in the lab, more inventory updating, and another Revolution loss, this time to the New York Red Bulls.
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| Ferns |
Thursday, August 31 – Meeting day at work, and closed out the month working on batch records for the start of the month to try and make sense of everything that happened.
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