Friday

The Retiree's Cigar Group was wonderful!  The talk was foolish and fun.  And, I did, very much enjoy my selection.  I chose to have a "Brickhouse "Mighty-Mighty" Maduro" again yesterday.  It is pleasant and creamy and flavorful.  I am very glad I found this set of friends and am glad I am going to be able to attend at the normal time every week until the middle of January now.  

I did my many loops running again inside this morning.  I am not foreseeing good outdoor air quality until perhaps Wednesday of next week at least according to current forecasts.  I am afraid I will forget what running outside is like.  

Today at the U is to be filled with the arduous task of creating submissions for my many research projects to the damnable Animal Use Committee at the U.  Many of you recall how I have described how annoying the committee is compared to how it should run.  Of the many applications I need to get in, six of them are "renewal" applications.... the Committee only approves a research project for one year and requires a "renewal" application each year.  But, the "renewal" application is only minimally less arduous than a new application.  I also have three new applications to get finished.  I doubt I can get all of them done today, but I have to work as hard as I can, because deadlines are not too far away.  

I also have to write an application to our Human Use Committee at the U because of an education/pedagogy project I want to enact and potentially acquire data from that I can present at a research meeting in the future.  I have not submitted a Human Use Committee application since just before the pandemic.  But, the Human Use Committee folks are much more logical, reasonable, and not so prone to "j*ck*ss*dn*ess" as are the Animal Use Committee folks, so once written, it should go through reasonably smoothly.  

I am hoping to end the work day today by going swimming with my wife.  Fingers crossed!  I hope to feel like the fellow above by 4:30 today.

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