The Gum Tree for 2004 August 2

It has been a good commencement of another week. Fast Sunday was nice. I spent most of my time after church installing a new hard drive that I bought. I had never done anything like that before, and it was very educational. I had a lot of fun learning about the circuits and the plugs. I always enjoyed working with my hands, and I discovered how very easy it is to build a computer with a little training. Perhaps next job will be to get a wireless card and router and install that so that I can have a home network.

The reason for the new hard drive is because in the next month or so I am going to work on some family photos and scrap booking as well as fileing away all of my music on the computer. Mom is going to come into town the 23rd of August and she is going to bring all of the family negatives so that I can scan them in and make CD’s for everybody. I originally wanted to salvage all of my mission photos, but Mom talked me into doing all of the family’s photos. I think that it will be a nice stroll down memory lane.

Today I am also really excited because I found a source for my Botox. I received a grant to work on the mechanism of botox in In Vitro models, but I haven’t until today found a source for Botulinum toxin. I need the light chain because the full version is too dangerous for me to work with, and nobody I knew of made it. I have been trying for about 8 months to get the protein, and now I can proceed. Work is rewarding, but I find that I need to be better organized.

Louise is in Salt Lake for her last day of training and meetings today as well. She has to meet with her Vocational Rehab manager and then she will be done. It will be nice to have her back in Provo during the day. Louise is making great strides in her learning of Braille. I am gratified and consider myself fortunate to have snagged such a catch as Louise.

In honor of Louise having finished Farenheit 451 I have a word of the Day:

Noctivagant---Wandering at night.