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brain teaser

KQ VZUQNBR PMZW GEB ZLA NEU, GEB XDFMW FQW DW.

I love cryptograms. I have books of them that I have unfortunately not picked up in a while. Time to get back on them again. The blog has been fairly dull lately, so I am going to liven it up by encrypting a phrase or more and leaving it for my readers to solve. I may or may not print the solution the next day, mostly because I will probably forget what I encrypted. It may be something funny, it might be something sad, maybe spiritual, or maybe even raunchy; who knows. It’s just another way to amuse myself.

The phrase I picked today is quite apt. Some things come back and bite you later. I will have to explain the God Box sometime. Right now some things I requested I’m getting and I’m not happy about it. Lessons are sometimes not necessarily painful, but decidedly uncomfortable and keep you pissed off till you finish learning them.

It’s almost time to go home. I have committed myself to cleaning the attic. We have a contractor coming on Sunday to take a look at it and give us a bid to remodel it. I’ve already received a quote from the furnace people, and sometime this week I hope to get a bid on my roof. It’s going to be a while before things get started, but a lot of the stuff up there needs cleaning out anyway and I feel motivated tonight. I have left instructions to seal me in up there and not let me out till I’m done.

To be continued…

some days are just fun

Today was the second day of the AOAC Conference. Got in early to socialize, hit a couple of talks, got bored and went off to visit Jason who teaches where the conference was being held. Just in time to help him move his office. (See June 19. Come back at the end of July. There will be a trend here.) Had a nice lunch with some of the coworkers I will be leaving, then invited Peggy to join me back at the Physics Department to hear one of Jason's undergrads practice giving a paper on the research they've been doing. He did a very good job. The math was over my head, but I got the concept. It has something to do with microchip technology. It was quite fun and both Peggy and I agreed it was more interesting than the dry stuff going on at the conference.

Came home and relaxed a bit with Arthur, then took off to my meeting. I was actually just going to open the door, then head over to Jason's house for a little gathering, but we had newcomers show up and no one was there with a lot of experience, so I stayed. Went over to Jason's afterward and played Trivial Pursuit for a couple of hours with him, Lisa and three of their friends.

It was a long day, but enjoyable.

No real plans for the weekend. We'll see what develops.

play day

Midnight

I got up at 6:30AM. I just spent five hours with a bunch of teenagers.

Tired doesn't begin to describe.

Met Iris this morning for a nursery run. We spent an hour on the deck in the new chairs discussing Life, the Universe and Everything. Not to mention gardening and our respective significant others. I spent most of the afternoon in the sun, putting in the plants from the aforementioned nursery run and fighting yellowjackets.

I bought a new office chair, which is dangerously comfortable. If I don't watch it Arthur will find me sitting here snoring in the morning.

He went off to bed before I got home. I spent the evening with Jason and Lisa and Sol herding six teenagers with unlimited energy. We barbecued. We played Pictionary. We played Charades. We played Detective. We did some program work. The kids baked cookies and brownies. After the last kids left at 11:30, we four adults had to decompress. We came to the conclusion that we are all, kids and adults, learning things from each other.

I'm sleeping in tomorrow.