I am supervised by a doctor. Itās a fascinating approach. he orders about 10 vials of blood for lab work and then everything is adjusted from those readings. One reason I donāt eat grains is because i get inflammation when I eat them; heās told me not everyone has this issue. He trained with Dr Fuhrman who wrote Eat for Life. His approach is similar except very moderate in the seeds and nuts.
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For the first time at my current job I feel at ease and at peace. Itās been almost a year. Itās been a long week, I did my part, and feel progress.
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Belatedā¦ after escaping/quitting/you canāt quit youāre fired from the gig in Iowa ā¦ I had my 4th interview with a staffing place that does vendor work for Microsoft and that time it went well.
I am now learning by doing the support of Azure. I am both excited and scared to death as the eventual position once the trial by fire is done and we are on our own we will be supporting the top 100 customers only. EEK! The only thing that keeps me and the others on the team at ease is we all knew pretty much diddly about what we are going to be doing.
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Got to see the Aquabats last night - first time in 5 years since theyāve been over here and 9 since they last played Manchester. They were supporting Bowling for Soup but still managed to pack almost an entire show into their 30 minute slot.
As a bonus, we met MC Bat Commander after the show and had hugs and chatted for about 10 minutes with him. He was super-nice and it really made our day!
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I got my state tax refund! Iāve been doing mine and my sonās taxes for the pastā¦umā¦well sheezus pleezus, I donāt remember, as we were dependents when Mom was alive, so didnāt have to file from 2009 to 2016, and we both worked in 2016 and 2017. So I did 'em last year, too. But I did them when I was working before.
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Iām running DNA sequences via a handheld sequencer attached to my laptop (The Minion). Also this means my replies to questions about this will be slow, since Iāll be leaving my laptop in office overnight.
The future is now, jerks!
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I hate youā¦ in the nicest way possible. I am so out of touch with who is touring and where anymore. That is a band I would like to see live.
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Not a biologist but I want one.
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Itās quite cool. The device + reagent kit is about a grand. It relies on about 2Gs on lab equipment, and another grand in further reagents that can be used in subsequent reactions. But you can get a few genomes out of it (finding out how many this next two weeks) before you need to replace the kit. Iām doing this for a class, and I should only need to put about $600 into it next time I teach it. For $600, I could teach this every year and show dozens of students how to make a genome by the time I have tenure.
Not quite tricorder-level tech, but very cool.
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Cleaned out enough junk to fill two garbage bins (the kind the city picks up, not indoor bins), even more than I had put on my to-do list for the day.
Isnāt it amazing how much more fulfilling getting rid of stuff is than getting it in the first place?
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Iāve noticed that. We have an enormous miscellaneous pile in the basement ready for the junk haulers. Just have to call them . . . .
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Wouldnāt it be wonderful if others could learn not to buy so much in the first place?
Am I asking for a Friend?
Shouldnāt I go to the Questions thread?
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Iāve filled four big black garbage bags today, and still have far to go. Iām getting rid of yarn that is dusty/ugly/moth-eaten.
I only live in a 60m2/648 sq ft apartment. This is nuts. Iām not allowed to claim this place is small ever again.
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I managed to get our annual Christmas dinner folks (some of whom we see only then) to switch from everyone gives something to everyone, to a Secret Santa kind of thing. I originally suggested a āno adults presentsā rule, but that didnāt fly, so this is a compromise.
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This is one of the reasons I stopped going to knit nights, especially ones held in yarn shops. You donāt have to buy, not normally, but itās impolite not to pick up something, so you get a ball of sock yarn (1 100g ball makes a pair).
And then you realise that even though you donāt go every week, even though you do in fact knit a lot of socks, you have far more sock yarn than you will knit in your lifetime.
And meanwhile thereās all this peer pressure to join the next knit-a-long, which means buying a kit, and someone gives you yarn because they know you knit, and one day nothing fits anymore in your yarn storage. And all you make are scrap blankets and charity hats.
And the thing is, I actually donāt like to spend all my spare time knitting. I like it, but Iām not obsessed with it.
But itās in my face all the time.
I donāt want to get rid of it. Iām just looking forward to being in control of it again.
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Finally unboxed and set up the chess set I brought a year ago.
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Yes but yarn and fabric have this way of just needing to be a part of your space. I had a friend who was really good at making drapes and pillows and such - she even did a little work on the side but she was not fast at it, so she didnāt do very much. She had worked at a fabric store for a while in her earlier days. She said lots of women would buy fabric just to own it. Iām so like that. I love beautiful fabric. I knitted for a while and the yarn started to multiply, too.
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This is so not me. The owner of my old regular yarn shop used to joke I shopped for yarn like other people shopped for groceries. Iād come in with a list and details on the next 2-3 projects, and then she wouldnāt see me again until next quarter when I came in with another list.
When Iām done this purge Iāll still have stash ā significant stash. But it will be stuff I can use to actually make things.
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With but One Week of unemployment left, the spouse appears to have found employment!
Still in the negotiating phase, but it looks like paychecks will be coming in again on a regular basis and my work bonus can go to frivolities and not eeking out lack of a second income.
So on to the libations. Or, honestly, continuing the libations.
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Yeah! Cheers!!!
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