Science Monkey

I’m at work, waiting on some RNA to precipitate in the centrifuge, so I thought I’d share my nice Saturday with you all. For starters, I got to spend yesterday with my wife! How rare is that? We went out to an early breakfast then spent the rest of the morning at the Spring Arts Festival. We bought some art, even…we bought a great gift for some friends who are getting married soon and we bought a print for ourselves. I’ll get a picture up once it’s framed. Afterwards, we went to the tattoo parlor and Emma got herself inked. Look how cool it came out:

While Emma was getting that done, I went out and helped my folks hang some pictures at the house. My aunts and uncles are coming to town for Lauren’s graduation (how the hell did that happen already?!), so mom’s freaking out about the house being perfect. Fun. I did get rewarded for my troubles, though. Dad gave me his old BlackBerry, which his IT guys couldn’t ever get working with their email and calendar servers. Woo! I’ve got it working as my phone already, but I need to do some tweaking. Like adding all my contacts and phone numbers. I have been able to update the OS on the BlackBerry and install the desktop software on my machine. I think I’ve figured out how to get the info synched, too, but I’m probably wrong.

After Emma’s tattoo was done we had another wonderful lunch at Flaco’s. I freaking love that place. Ropa vieja FTW.

The rest of the afternoon was pretty quiet. Emma was pretty exhausted — three hours holding still is pretty tiring, after all — so we went home and lazed around the house. Watched some bad TV, napped, laid in the hammock. Good times.

Oh, we also bought a new toy for the cats. It’s a “crinkle cave,” which makes all sorts of noise when they walk around inside. Guess who likes it the best? That’s right…

My timer’s almost done, so I’ll close now. I’ve got a lovely picture of my elbow online on my Flickr account if you’re interested. It’s probably not for the extremely squeamish, but it’s not all that bad. Happy Sunday!