As I was saying last night before I was so rudely interrupted by sleep…
Well, it’s going to be a busy week for me, even though it’s only three days at work. Today and tomorrow, at least, and probably Wednesday, I’m making three batches of coating per day. At two-and-a-half hours each, and trying to slip in testing of previous batches during the hour hold time I get in each process, it’s going to be pretty hoppin’. Fortunately, that should finish off all the batches I have to make and next week can be devoted to testing and writing up all this mess.
“So,” you’re asking yourself (because you talk to yourself. Weirdo.) “What are you doing for the Fourth of July, Duncan?” Well, not a whole hell of a lot, and I’m loving it. Rob and Janet (and Ian) are hosting their annual house party, whereby they invite a few dozen friends to crash at their place for a long weekend, consume interesting alcohol, eat lots of grilled food, and stay up far too late. The theme alcohols for this year are gin and vodka (only the good stuff, if you please). For last year’s Cinco de Mayo party, tequila was the theme and that was where I learned there’s some excellent tequilas out there that aren’t expensive at all. I’m not much of a gin fan, but I’ll try some if only to remind myself why I don’t like it. The Grey Goose vodka I’ve had was excellent, as was the Belvedere – I’m interested to see what else Rob comes up with. The nice part about this is that we’ll probably only stop by for a few days out of the long weekend, and relax the rest of the time. The one fly in the ointment is that takaza has to work on Friday while I have the day off. That kind of sucks but we’ll work around it.
Next week, of course, we’re off to Anthrocon. We’re driving out on Thursday and stopping at a hotel in Aberdeen, MD for the night, then arriving around noon on Friday. We’ll be rooming with rustitobuck and mirkowuff (By the way guys, Dan inflated the air mattress and checked it for leaks last night – he says it’s nice and comfy). Both Takaza and I have volunteered for Operations staff (they recognized the big red “S” on our foreheads, you see) which as near as I can tell means we’ll be assisting with the cash registers at the Con Store and in Artists’ Alley, though I’m happy to help out wherever I’m needed. I’ve come to the conclusion that working at cons keeps me from getting bored, and this is a Good Thing.
The week after that we’ll be heading down to South Carolina to visit my parents’ place and see my sister and my two nephews. That should be a lot of fun, too.
The last weekend in July is, tentatively, unclaimed. I somehow doubt it will stay that way, but we’ll see.
As an aside, howdy to Tango (vt_komainu) who thought he could sneak onto my friends list without me noticing 🙂
Well, back to the lab. Laters!
Saaaay….
Is the annual Anthrocon S***** tasing party still on this year? If so, I shall come prepared. 🙂
Re: Saaaay….
Hm – given that I don’t really have any place to hold it (and I wouldn’t subject y’all to a flood of people), I don’t think I’ll be holding a party, per se. Now, I just *might* happen to bring a bottle of such a tasty potable with me, and I *might* invite one or two known appreciators of said potable to stop by, but that’s about it.
When you come for your visit chez nous, you must bring your new toy. I am dying to get a picture of Miss Sillyness trying to climb a tree to get one of, several of, any of those pesky squirrels. She can go about six feet (’cause that’s about as high as she can jump) but she NEVER stops trying.
NOAA has us on our toes tonight…last night we didn’t hear a thing but got to watch a spectacular storm. The down drafts were SOMETHING ELSE!!! Also got to go to bed with no power…it came on ’bout 3:15 (AM) and Duke Power called us at 6:15 (AM!) to make sure we had it. I was NOT pleased with their call and didn’t even thank them for caring. Later, Ma
Sneak?
Who said anything about sneaking? I do not sneak, I simply appear… it disturbs people and that tends to be amusing.
example:
Standing in the exit to the Rebel Yell, I observe my crew for some fifteen minutes. The in-charge person has long since noticed me when the board operator i’m next to bothers to observe her eye cycle and freaks out. “How long have you been standign there!?”