Friday, December 1 – I needed to start using up PTO, so I stayed at work long enough to stop the reaction from the previous night, clean up the lab for the week, attend a meeting, and take a walk to the bagel place before heading off to buy craft supplies and groceries.
Saturday, December 2 – Worked on a jigsaw puzzle most of the morning before convincing myself to leave the house to stop by the library and then do some raking.
Sunday, December 3 – Figured I should probably start going through the year’s photos if I wanted to get a calendar together for 2024.
Monday, December 4 – Ended up spending most of the day troubleshooting our AKTAs, then had instant noodles for dinner for the first time in a good while.
Tuesday, December 5 – Supervised what should have been a relatively simple day of column packing that turned into a bizarre host of problems plaguing multiple columns and AKTAs, and finally got around to roasting a bunch of potatoes/carrots and making a sweet potato casserole (no marshmallows).
Wednesday, December 6 – Column packing continued, somehow turning into an all-hands-on-deck situation for the downstream team.
Thursday, December 7 – Finally got the columns packed and qualified.
Friday, December 8 – Another half day at work followed by Wegmans.
Saturday, December 9 – Finished the puzzle of a bottle of sriracha that I’d been working on since before Thanksgiving and baked a batch of dinosaur-shaped gingerbread cookies and a batch of snickerdoodles.
Sunday, December 10 – Wanted to make stuffed peppers without actually having to deal with stuffing peppers, so instead dumped a bunch of pepper chunks into the toaster oven and cooked rice and ground beef separately; also got the 2024 calendar ordered.
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| Sriracha puzzle |
Monday, December 11 – Got pulled into a bunch of meetings at work.
Tuesday, December 12 – Had to update sampling plans and finalize batch records for the run I was about to lead, attended more meetings, then went home for a dumpling making class held via Zoom by the library and made dumplings.
Wednesday, December 13 – TFF (tangential flow filtration) day proceeded without major issue, but I ended up working late extracting the sampling plan from old batch records for our other project.
Thursday, December 14 – Played chauffeur again to collect my parents from the bus station.
Friday, December 15 – Bagel day – I tried a cinnamon crunch bagel with honey walnut cream cheese.
Saturday, December 16 – Stalked Amazon looking for a LEGO set that was about to be discontinued.
Sunday, December 17 – Worked on finishing cross stitch projects (cutting/edging).
Monday, December 18 – Started the first column of the run.
Tuesday, December 19 – Completed the longest unit operation of the run – 14 hours (7 am to 9 pm) from prep to clean up.
Wednesday, December 20 – Got to eat leftover pepperoni pizza for lunch (and performed the next two steps of the run).
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| Gingerbread dinosaurs and snickerdoodles |
Thursday, December 21 – Managed to finish the last purification step before the company holiday lunch and Yankee swap, then decided to undergo another 14-hour day to finish concentration and wrap up the run so there wouldn’t be any lab work on Friday.
Friday, December 22 – Checked batch records and closed out the lab for the week.
Saturday, December 23 – Baked cranberry orange bread.
Sunday, December 24 – Had a Christmas Eve lunch of bagels and a Christmas Eve dinner of pork ribs.
Monday, December 25 – Celebrated Christmas by matting and framing most of the Christmas cross stitch gifts, working on stitching the last gift (almost caught up with Critical Role campaign 3), doing laundry, and using the chain saw on some trees that fell the previous week.
Tuesday, December 26 – Quiet day at work, giving me the chance to finally organize some files on the lab computers.
Wednesday, December 27 – Continued with the file organization and had a string cheese snack.
Thursday, December 28 – More PTO, so I cross stitched and started trying to catch up on the blog.
Friday, December 29 – Cleared out the last of my PTO that wouldn’t carry over to next year, and used it to go grocery shopping, take a walk, cross stitch, bake a flourless chocolate cake, and write some more.
Saturday, December 30 – Made the ganache for the cake, went to the library, and finished season 1 of The Good Place.
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| Cross stitch plant |
Sunday, December 31 – Last day of the year – didn’t quite finish The Hero of Ages (the last Mistborn book in the first trilogy), had orange chicken for lunch, didn’t quite finish my last cross stitch gift, ate a small banana, and was up at midnight to bring in the new year not quite catching up on my monthly blog posts, so business as usual for my life.
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