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I had a few days of vacation this week and I was planning on visiting my parents. They're having their 50th wedding anniversary this weekend. Unfortunately my boss decided at the last minute to switch my vacation days from before July 4th to after so I ended up working through Thursday. So my new plan was to catch a nap after work then hit the road. Unfortunately my tendency towards insomnia has been hitting hard this past week. The last good night of sleep I had was last Thursday and tonight was no exception to this trend. I wanted to sleep 3 or 4 hours and I'm still awake 5 hours after I initially went to bed. Aren't these sheep cute? That's a design from Threadless T-shirts. I sure do understand that sheep counting thing--not that it helps any. The end result is a delay in departure. I have trouble doing the 15 minute drive home from work when I'm like this, driving a few hours on the Interstate would not be a good idea. It's weird. Laying in bed I can't ...

The weather here in North Carolina has taken a turn for the colder. The same is true for most of the USA. The global warming train has taken a brief break--at least here in my neighborhood. I woke up this morning around 3am and couldn't get back to sleep. I was bored and started taking pictures of the time/temperature readout up on my wall of my bedroom. As you can see, it was quite chilly last night and it got colder as dawn approached. In fact, as you can see in the picture below--we had our first snow accumulation of the Winter. It's less than an inch but it looked so pretty. Kinda annoying to drive in but other than having to drive a little slower the commute was painless. It's been raining a little bit but despite that there's still a fair amount of snow outside my laboratory. I brought my camera in to work with me in the hopes of taking some pictures of a snow covered campus but unfortunately I had to much work this morning to be able to go outside and now more th...