Yay Mondays!

One strange facet of experimental science: if you time it right and leave an experiment running over the weekend, it's exciting to come in on Monday and hope for data!

Of course many experiments require monitoring (boo working all weekend). Fortunately, Crystal trays are intended to be left alone for...well, however long it takes. Years in some (extreme) cases.

I will have to find more projects that need to be left alone for a few days before they yield results.

Academic Code

Trying to edit some simple 2,000 line python code that was hacked into existence by 3 biologists who don't know an object from a hummingbird is the definition of academic hell. Fortunately, it's only 2k lines, I can fix it all in a couple days. Also, if you guys ever find this blog, I love you guys.  Just please let me teach you some basic programming best practices. :)

Friday thinking time?

I need to stop starting projects at 4 pm on Friday. Ones that take 3 hours to finish. Is so tempting to think, "oh but I'll have results by Monday!"

Should be Friday afternoon drinking time.