Wow, congratulations!

Radiochemistry is hard to explain for this reason. Stoichiometry of a reaction can be like 1,000,000:1 and it breaks people’s brains because units are like 1500 mCi which seems big but it’s also picomoles.

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I would like one that sends bajillions of follow-up emails at progressively shorter time intervals and then adds my boss and the recipient’s boss to the chain. It would save me so much time and annoyance.

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All the volunteers are mystified about why she hasn’t been snapped up! She IS perfect.

A small orange tabby knocking an orange mini-pumpkin off a cardboard cat structure.

She has opinions about decorative gourds.

A small orange tabby with immense green eyes sitting in a stainless steel utility sink.

She supervises volunteers closely.

A small orange tabby at a kibble dish

A stainless steel kibble dish with about 1/3 of the kibble spilled out onto the floor.

Kibble terrorism.

Absolutely correct. She also rides on shoulders!

A small orange tabby curled into a tight ball, perfectly circular, in the lap of someone wearing jeans.

From the cat café where I volunteer. She is a wee terrorist when awake. 6.5 lbs of chomps snd destruction.

I kind of love the genre of ICE vs ice.

I am old enough that I remember taking so many film shots to be sure I got one decent one, and I’m no one’s idea of a good photographer. It’s still kind of amazing to me that digital is so good and easy.

Three black cats snuggling close on a futon covered with a bright yellow blanket with cartoon cats on it.

It’s hard to tell, but this is three black cats snuggling together. Two daughters named Inky and Pinky and their mother, Pac Mama. Son Clyde is elsewhere, and son Blinky was adopted. The girls are very protective of their mama, who needed a lot of vet care.

A brown tabby with a tuxedo type pattern - white blaze and ruff, pink nose, sitting as a cat loaf on a light wood table. The cat is smiling and looks absolutely content.

This fine fellow is named Pedro Pusscal. He went home with his new humans late last week. I hope they keep his name.

Ours is for serving cat food.

Happy eating!

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Kitty? This guy isn’t an adorable little one. His name is Bullseye. He came to the rescue after being shot in the head with a dart (it narrowly missed every important structure). Needless to say, he’s got some trust issues, but he’s a survivor, and he’s beautiful.

We went to buy a dishwasher a few years ago, and the first two or three we’d planned to buy were backordered for like 8 months so we basically closed our eyes and pointed at one. It seems fine! I hope you have an easy time with happy outcomes.

3: if you can afford a little extra $, I recommend SuitSupply for custom measurements. Got a high schooler a suit there for senior year things, and they got good use out of it.

We have a rule in our house: Always rent the bigger dumpster.

That is such hard work. I’m sorry. I have one or two reminders of my grandparents but there was so much stuff. Dad downsized aggressively when Mom died, so I’m not expecting too much to sort. (Technically his new wife gets all belongings, but if he outlives her, it’s back to his kids.)

The Texas Carbon. (A honky-tonk, of course.)

The Kugelrohr Café.

Surely the Rotovap Trap?

And eyebrows! What a lovely shot.

A coworker uses a LLM to draft protocols and estimate risks for new processes in a lab setting. She then gives it to me to check as a technical expert. The LLM makes assumptions that render its estimates useless for our purposes, but it does correctly state the assumption, at least.

Sometimes just the last two sentences.

“At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.”