It’s 9:07 am. Yesterday I forgot to write a blog. I just came in, started working, and forgot about it. Generally, once I get momentum on a task it’s hard to stop. Yesterday it was working on how to attach the gel to the polymer base in our implant. I have some ideas using covalent bonding chemistry, hopefully, it helps.
The day before yesterday, Wed, I hardly remember what I did. It seems like I spent time working on my class, partly searching for activities to do, which I’m spending too much time on. Last night I had the idea to make models of solids composed of springs connected to spheres. I searched about it and found one old previous example from France published in 1971. Then I became obsessed about how to recreate it in a much easier way. I think I came up with an idea that will be easier involved molding PLA into spheres with the bonding points labeled, then jamming the springs into the melted PLA. Now I have to try it out.
We got a thank you card in the mail from Avery yesterday for her pink piano birthday present. Alexandra likes the drawing inside and tried to add to the card with the same color as Avery’s drawing.
The day before yesterday we went to the playground, and yesterday we did the same thing. Alexandra likes to climb this spiral thing, go down the slide, go on the monkey bars with my help, and swing. On the swing she likes to kick my butt, then I pretend to get angry and run at her, swinging her high in the air. Harvey likes to run around doing random things and get chased.
The day before yesterday I made watermelon juice and poured it into a popsicle mold we bought at Walmart for $1. The kids loved eating the popsicles yesterday. They have food trucks on Thursdays down by the playground and we ended up buying a holy cannoli. It was a deep-fried tube filled with very sweet cream and the ends topped with chocolate chips. I really regretted eating it. I think the caffeine in the chocolate chips was one reason I couldn’t stop thinking about balls and springs and fall asleep until 1 am.
