My boss and his wife take a week every December and go to Hawaii. This past week was it. I had everything I needed to do at work finished by Wednesday - much of it ON Wednesday. Although I did have to wait till Thursday to tell my boss the results of some of my detective work.
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The partner at Stanford who is actually going to submit got the necessary letter of permission from the NIH to submit a grant with annual budgets >$500K on Friday. This is excellent because the deadline is February 5, and we stand a chance of getting the boilerplate material we have to have approved for our subcontract and sent on to Stanford done before Christmas.
I'm taking the days between Christmas and New Year off. There is no way I'm changing that - and since this is a reworking of a proposal that didn't get funded, the paperwork isn't going to be terribly difficult to get through. Especially since, upon hearing the difference in pricing between cats and rabbits, my boss decided to specify rabbits as in the original version after all. That was the detective work I had to wait to tell him. The grant project is designing imaging probes small enough to use on preemies. Animal experiments are essential to getting approval for human experiments, so don't yell about it.
At home, I spent Thursday evening downloading and installing the new Safari version, which is available for free for those of us with the most recent version, for sure. I didn't check about if it's free for anybody else. It took several hours to download, so I went to bed and (I thought) finished the job when I found myself wide awake at 2:00 AM.
I spent Friday evening downloading and listening to an audiobook, having finally convinced the Overdrive Media app to install on my home computer. The Mac version is much slower than the PC and doesn't start up again at the spot where I stopped, but otherwise works the same, so I don't plan to complain. Much. I did notice that a couple of the icons on my bar had the circle/slash "do not" sign over them and wondered what that meant.
Saturday started with me deciding to stay in bed and read for a while (I have a library book on the Parthenon that can't be renewed, and I have to turn it in a week from now). That lasted till 7:00 AM, when I got a call from my daughter begging me to come over and babysit so she could make a quick trip to the grocery store to be able to feed her kids breakfast. I went over as soon as I got dressed, and she got back as soon as she could - I was back home by 8:30.
Upon getting home, I decided to see what was up with the unusable applications. What was up was not all the upgrades had downloaded, so, from about 9:00 AM to 2:30 PM, I finished the process. Not wanting to slow things down any farther than I had to, I read using the Kindle app I have on my computer so I could keep an eye on how the downloads were going. I read parts of three books, including getting halfway through A Slip of the Keyboard, which is a recently released collection of Terry Pratchett's non-fiction.
I also did some general clean-up that I've been putting off in my living room. Nothing that would take me out of quick reach of my computer.
Today, I may do as little as humanly possible.