It is my full week on again at the store.. hence, the quietness... I might be coming down with a sinus thing again... taking precautions. I checked the garden this morning and we have the very tiny starts of corn coming up, and some of the cowpeas are also coming up. All but one of the tomato transplants are taking chances at thriving. I put the one yellow tomato seedling from inside the house outside for an hour of sun before work, to harden it off some - the others were badly sunburnt because I did not do that with them. We lost one of our chickens the other day.. not sure to what, it was dead inside the pen. We have to think about if we want them to sit and have chicks...
Esme took the chicken death as well as can be expected. She has had some trouble at school, trying to sort that out - kids teasing her but she isn't/wasn't precise about exactly which things happened and which didn't, or didn't happen recently, at the very least. I take it as a learning experience all around, like the jacket incident earlier in the year. Her TCAP Tennessee state testing is this week, so I wish it hadn't come up during this - but it was affecting her and Mark saw it, too... hopefully it is handled well, now. We'll see. I'm back on a bit of a reading kick - science, math etc... different things bouncing in my head. I haven't sewn much lately, though... and my knitting project has been on the table untouched for a day and a half... so much to do, and work is such a big block of it doesn't always leave much time for much else.
Trying to get to Sunday, next day off... Symmetry magazine came in the mail, and was reading that - it goes in well with some of the chirality/symmetry chemical molecule, particle physics and abstract algebra topics that have piqued my interest the past few days.. not that I get anywhere on purpose studying these - but things come in my brain here and there, and I go to look them up, and they send me in another direction, and then more 'clicks'... I like that process, at the very least. And I know why when I was reading about coordination compounds the words 'well, what is phenol oxalate, then?' came up in my 'brain queue' later - it is glowsticks :) ha. I guess I have to keep that undercurrent brain process busy with something when it isn't engaged with plumbing repair parts.
--I got a hug from an elderly customer yesterday (I've helped him for five years or so now, and it was a side hug because he was so relieved) when I asked him to bring me the 'entire' stem for their shower instead of just a small piece - the piece was intriguing, I _wanted_ to know what it came from, but there just wasn't enough of it. to know for certain. I knew I had never seen it before on an item I had sold - but it looked close to several things I had not had hands on before that I found in parts diagrams. I explained exactly what I needed to know- he brought it back and from several hallmarks combined I positively identified it, called the company and got them to send him a new one under warranty which will arrive in three days. That is what that brain process is usually involved in, finding, researching, storing and retrieving part information.
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