Last couple of days:

-Rush to do labwork. Rush away again.

-Went on an afternoon driving expedition to Samuel P. Taylor State Park and Point Reyes Station because scrottie's mother fell on Sunday and bonked her knee and couldn't really walk much.

-My mom and dad showed up Wednesday afternoon. I think I cooked a big vat of curry to feed to everyone? I'm not sure what else happened. Too many people for any sort of thought coherence.

Thanksgiving morning:

-Got up, had breakfast, went to the boathouse and started off the Holiday Challenge with the traditional Thanksgiving half-marathon. I am not in great shape, but there's only one place to start, right?

-Biked up to campus to tend to the diethyl ether samples. Got home just before noon, then did a whole bunch of cooking. At least I was able to have a shower before dinner got underway.

Today, so far, I went on a lovely walk with my parents, slydevil, and sytharin, out to the Albany Bulb. I like hearing the water lap along the shore.

Having even more people around than usual makes it very hard to retain a train of thought. I miss those trains. What tends to happen instead is that I have a hard time sleeping because my brain still wants to have its trains, and then they become very anxious because the trains aren't really going anywhere because I am not in a position to be working away at projects while also trying to accommodate visitors.

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