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(I thought I had posted this last week, but on second glance, it's not there.)

Also from our Marine Region calendar (September):

Science, like love, can be blind, inspired, glorious or brutal. The piercing ability to perceive order within apparent chaos is, to me, the greatest, elegant power of science. Not to impose order, but to perceive it.
-Carl Safina

I am going to have to look up this guy's book. He seems to have the knack that Carl Sagan and Stephen Jay Gould had, to make the description of science almost poetic. And to think I used to be on an elsmobranch mailing list with him!

I was at from 6am to 5:30 pm finishing those database reports for the people in La Jolla to run their biomass assessments. And today D. tells me they only pull a couple of figures off each one to put in their sardine models. Snort! - I feel like I've been giving myself a concussion beating my on my desk for nothing.

I need to get an action figure of Bob the Builder's cat for my desk. It tickles me that his name is Pilchard. I work with sardines, Pilchard is British for sardine. Pilchard = Sardine. Get it? Oh, never mind.

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(I thought I had posted this last week, but on second glance, it's not there.)

Also from our Marine Region calendar (September):

Science, like love, can be blind, inspired, glorious or brutal. The piercing ability to perceive order within apparent chaos is, to me, the greatest, elegant power of science. Not to impose order, but to perceive it.
-Carl Safina

I am going to have to look up this guy's book. He seems to have the knack that Carl Sagan and Stephen Jay Gould had, to make the description of science almost poetic. And to think I used to be on an elsmobranch mailing list with him!

I was at from 6am to 5:30 pm finishing those database reports for the people in La Jolla to run their biomass assessments. And today D. tells me they only pull a couple of figures off each one to put in their sardine models. Snort! - I feel like I've been giving myself a concussion beating my on my desk for nothing.

I need to get an action figure of Bob the Builder's cat for my desk. It tickles me that his name is Pilchard. I work with sardines, Pilchard is British for sardine. Pilchard = Sardine. Get it? Oh, never mind.

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I have been so busy the last few weeks the surface of my desk could not be seen - not an uncommon state for my desk. When I finished one project, I just began piling the crap from the next project on top of it. I made a halfhearted try to clear it away before I left today. At least now it's all in one big pile. Now if I could just get the same the done in my house!

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I have been so busy the last few weeks the surface of my desk could not be seen - not an uncommon state for my desk. When I finished one project, I just began piling the crap from the next project on top of it. I made a halfhearted try to clear it away before I left today. At least now it's all in one big pile. Now if I could just get the same the done in my house!

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I've read about many people changing the day they celebrate a birthday or anniversary if it originally fell on 9/11. However, V.'s birthday is tomorrow and she has demanded that we go to Islands for lunch. It was her birthday first. And I agree with her. Life as usual. Do what you were doing before.

Or they win, right? This is not to say we won't be commemorating it in some small way. Maybe we'll drop by miss_geek's beach bonfire in the evening. I think I'd like to be away from the TV for awhile.

One thing's for sure. Nobody has any excuse for forgetting when her birthday is.

(no subject)

I've read about many people changing the day they celebrate a birthday or anniversary if it originally fell on 9/11. However, V.'s birthday is tomorrow and she has demanded that we go to Islands for lunch. It was her birthday first. And I agree with her. Life as usual. Do what you were doing before.

Or they win, right? This is not to say we won't be commemorating it in some small way. Maybe we'll drop by miss_geek's beach bonfire in the evening. I think I'd like to be away from the TV for awhile.

One thing's for sure. Nobody has any excuse for forgetting when her birthday is.