I thought things were getting better

After weeks of waiting for the tanks to arrive, I called the pet store AGAIN to set a delivery time. At this point, I have not once received any communication from them that I have not initiated first by a phone call or a visit. They assured me the tanks will arrive on Wednesday for a Thursday (today) delivery. Did not hear anything from them yesterday which I considered to be a good thing. Called today to set up a time, and NO DELIVERY! Turns out the company that makes the tanks has only made 3 of the 9 ordered (7 of which were mine). So, they made the executive decision to not deliver any of them. This I find out the day after the once/week delivery schedule. SO ANGRY!! Back to the drawing board.

On a side note, I have been playing around with various pdf organizing and manipulating software. My recent addition has been a program called Papers (only for Mac users). This is a cool little program that will easily become my new best friend. Biggest downfalls are the ability to site and the ability to highlight. It only allows me to use Preview which is a program I despise. Apple should know better than to use Preview because it is such a limited and useless program.

What is up with Pdf's anyway? Is there no better option than non-readable documents that have limited software capabilities and no easy way to be interactive? For scientists, and I am including myself in that mix, our software is in the dark ages.

Support another friend... Furniture

For those who are interested in amazing handmade furniture ... look no further than Chester Shuey's Handcrafted Furniture. Enough of a promotion for everyone??!! Actually, he's a really nice guy and does know what he's doing. Anyone who wants to follow his blog can go to: http://www.cshandcrafted.blogspot.com/.

If I trust him with my life (climbing)... I would probably trust him enough to sit on his furniture.

I survived the weekend from hell

After being bed-ridden from a horrible cold for all of Saturday and Sunday, I wake up to find my computer is broken!! The mac people have (for the second time) declared my hard drive to be dead. This is the key lesson... BACK UP YOUR STUFF!! I've spent the past 24 hours only starting to get my computer life back together and I keep thinking ... 20 minutes, only 20 minutes to save all of the files and I would not have this problem.

Overall, I'm kicking myself extremely hard right now but it's put a new flame under my ass to keep moving on this research. Overall, I thought progress was going to be made but the delivery of the tanks has been delayed another week and will not arrive until Thursday. I'm hoping on having everything ready to go by Monday. And then the parents arrive...

On the positive site, I still have a few bottles of liquor in my room to be consumed in case things get really bad (only kidding... maybe...).