First week back at work seems to have gone fast and slow at the same time. Each day has gone by quite fast as I have been quite busy, but at the same time, the week has seemed long, and so I feel that I have got lots done. It will just round the week off nicely if my sequencing results come back this afternoon with the correct sequence for pAC98 SAL4-18 in the correct orientation!
So to the weekend. Off down to Glasgow tomorrow at the chirpy time of 07:30! We are going for a Chinese lunch to celebrate joint birthdays for one of my wife's cousins and her Mum (so Auntie). Cousin is 30, Auntie is 60. It should be a good weekend as they are all really great people, it just sucks that we have to get up so early on a day off!
Bit off late night shopping last night, reasonably successful. Wife bought clothes, I got new headphones for mp3 player, and train tickets for going up to Elgin next weekend (visit friends to play Force Unleashed on their Wii! Their idea not ours!). We then had an impromptu dinner at a wee Italian restaurant, very nice. Pizza and Calzone (not both mine!) and some wine. Not particularly cheap, but then it's not very often that just the two of us go out for dinner.
Put new memory into computer last night, I have a lovely 3GB of RAM now. It was a bit of a fiddle as usual. I really love the way in the instructions of how to install memory it tells you to push down with even pressure until it clicks into place with a clear diagram of someone with their hands directly over the module pushing easily. Of course in reality there is no such space, just wires everywhere that poke in the wrong place, one of the clips hard up against the graphics card so it wouldn't open fully, and absolutely no space to manouver at all unless you have hand the size of a three-year old! Still we did it, and then after my computer decided it needed to reboot itself twice, it worked.
Anyway, some of that work. Western blot, transformation, plates to pour (which I should go and do now instead of blogging!), and hopefully sequencing to check. Mmmm quite busy!
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