Good morning, cuzzins! I find myself with a few minutes to myself this morning... bossman is busy working at home, and we usually have a lab meeting on Thursday mornings, so I've spent this "free" morning doing a few things around the lab that needed tending to... Yesterday was a madhouse. Our pure water system sprung a leak, so I had to spend an hour on the phone with tech support at Millipore, which isn't much fun. Then one of the researchers had a problem with a chemical he was using in experiments which was working until he used a new bottle. Then it quit working, and he wanted to get some of the older stuff, which is no longer available. Spent an hour on the phone with tech support from Sigma-Aldrich... again, not a pleasant pursuit. Then an old computer attached to a critical instrument for some of the researchers died. This was one of the old IBM Thinkpads running Win2000. Luckily I had a newer Dell laptop squirrelled away (the one I had before I got a newer one), so last night I wiped it and installed Win7, brought it in this morning, and hooked it up to the netowrk and to the instrument. Works like a jewel now. So it was a day of many fires. Today is Susan's birthday... We're celebrating tonight by taking the girls out to dinner with us... We're headed to Husk, the new restaurant where Maya is working as a cook. She wangled the night off so we could buy her dinner! Should be fun, and we know the food will be wonderful. Well, time to go... Y'all have a great day! Peace, Part of the Tree, Greg