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Daily Progress



Note: when I first started, I counted 154 photo sets to process... but forgot that I'd done some and didn't subtract them. I noticed that today, so I'm amending my goal from 154 to 146! Heh. Closer than I thought. 26 Nov.



November 1:



Only got two done but I got a whole bunch of prep work done to make things easier in the long term. Plus I found out that I'm missing a photo of my lab book that I need, and that I forgot my scratch notebook in the lab, grr.


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Wow, bit of a gap there. Dh had to fly down to New Mexico as an emergency, so all of a sudden I was single parenting... which isn't too bad, except when I have to be two places at the same time. :) It's been a busy time, and add in Thanksgiving, and some car trouble up here! Anyhow, back to working on this today.

Also, I found out, counting the ones I have left to do, that the total number is 146, not 154 as I'd previously written. I put a note on the top, and amended all my little counters. 14 more to go!


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November 28:
DONE!!!!!!!!:






Well, I have no idea why all of my counters are broken, but the important info is... I'm done! I've got all the photos processed, all 600 or so of them. Next up, I need to write some Excel Macros to actually calculate the stomatal index.

And oh, hey, this is what I was doing, since I don't think I ever really showed it:



Some of the photos are better, some are worse. Often I'd have several taken at a different focus. Anyhow, the goal was to count all the pavement cells, the ones shaped like puzzle pieces, and all the stomata, the ones shaped like little mouths. If there was any meristemoids, ie immature stomata, count them too (there is one right below the stomata in the upper left! There is at least another, but it's late, I'm not seeing it right this second and I'm too lazy to find the data to see where it actually is). For each construct I made, all 18 of them, I had 10 or so different bits of leaf, and between 5 and 6 photos at different focus points. Anyhow.

A few things.

My niece in Anchorage is safe after the earthquake. Phew. Always scary, earthquakes.

Man, two weeks without dh and I've slipped back to old nightowl patterns. Without him going to bed at about 11pm, I just naturally stay up later and later. I was technically in bed at 1am, but I read until about 2. This is not good. I've been getting up at 6am, still, so not enough sleep, and then reading in bed for a few hours, 3/4 asleep. Not asleep enough to get real rest, awake enough to follow a fun novel, but not the non-fiction books I'm reading on my Kindle. So yeah. Must re-set. Dh'll back next week, phew.

One response that I absolutely fucking hate is when sites change a UI or a program, and when you really don't like it, they bleet in such a condescending manner "We know change is hard!" or "People don't like change!" I like change plenty when it's an improvement, but not change for the sake of change, making a UI, for example, less functional so that it works better on phones, but ruining it for the web. Right now, I'm looking at Outlook. The new version works, once you've made the gazillion changes to make it look at much as possible like the old version (getting rid of the stupid marbles was the first thing), but one thing that I cannot fix, and that has me pissed beyond belief is that they changed the spacing so that I can see about half as many messages on the screen. There is SO much room around each line of text, it's ridiculous. As in, above and below EACH line of text there is blank space that is larger than the text... and each message has this:



This is not progress, this is just making less information available and abusing my precious screen real estate!

Change, to me, is a problem when it truly does not make a product more functional, or when it makes it so complex that it becomes unwieldy. I like things streamlined, and programs/aps that do what they need to do, without any half zillion "extra features" which add visual clutter and won't be used 90% of the time. I dread the day my Fitbt Flex dies. I don't want a heart rate monitor, or, really, anything more than a simple pedometer. I don't even like the fact that it tries to track my sleep. I just want to know how many steps I've taken. Stop trying to estimate my calories burned (ha! I wish your data was correct!), don't effing remind me to get up and move, get the fuck away from my texts and email, and if I want a heartrate monitor, I'll get one. Just... make sure a basic, discrete AND discreet pedometer is still available for those of us who want one. I mean, I ditched Android for my beloved Windows Phone (sob! best platform ever) because Android become so fucking full of crap stuff that it lost functionality and things became complex to use when I just want simple and efficient.

Ah well.