Wednesday, September 20
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gottawonderToday I am grateful for:
A decent day, a bit rainy but not unpleasant.
My husband got up early to go to the city by himself...to go buy things. Mainly a special air nailer that I guess he does need for the siding. One plus, it can also use fine brads, so might be useful for smaller crafts by me later on, like making picture frames or bird houses.
He also bought a battery powered weed/grass whacker, that might be easier to use than our gas one. The gas one is very hard to start, so I end up not using it that much on my own. This new battery one can be used with other attachments too. Might make a few jobs easier.
I was able to sell the old wooden windows that we took out of the house when we put in the new vinyl ones!
A woman came to get them today, and she uses them as frames for stained glass windows. I'm very glad that they will get a new life, because they are beautiful. I hated to replace them, as they were one of the things I loved about this kind of house, but there are many benefits to the new windows.
I'm happy we got some money for them, and happy they aren't going to the landfill or rotting in a shed somewhere. They were also taking up a ton of space in the garage.
We gave her some vegetables too.
We had to pick the remaining zucchini from the garden, and cucumbers, as we had a hard frost recently, and more are coming. The root vegetables will be fine for a while, but everything else is done now.
I went to see River, today we had a lesson.
He did well with our work on the freestyle, practiced a liberty pattern we hope to record next week for an online class, and we did ridden work too (spirals) and he was better with the left lead.
Our new homework is to get some lightness and finesse with the side pass and turn on hindquarters under saddle, as patterns for the liberty association will start to include more of those as we work up to harder patterns.
I came home and looked at the tools my Sweetie purchased, and the bit of progress he made today.
We came in and watched one episode of "Wednesday", and my husband called for an early turn in.
I learned that space is a great place to do research and development of drugs and therapies, partly because you can get some very complicated work done in microgravity that is difficult to do in Earth's full gravity; things like smaller crystal formation in protein and not getting sedimentation or settling in solutions.
https://cen.acs.org/pharmaceuticals/drug-development/Pharma-goes-space-drug-development/100/i40
What's also interesting to me, is that doing medical research in space often means using the astronauts themselves as participants, so you have the issue of things like: is the willingness to participate in medical testing going to affect the selection of future astronauts, and because this research is taking place in the ISS, there are issues of security between countries as the time and space on the ISS is investments made by private companies and also countries.
How about potential issues of sabotage, or even something like avoiding laws and ethical restrictions that exist on Earth, but could be bypassed in space? I don't know how International law works in space.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK223775/#:~:text=Stringent%20standards%20must%20be%20applied,trustworthy%20from%20the%20astronauts'%20perspective.
A decent day, a bit rainy but not unpleasant.
My husband got up early to go to the city by himself...to go buy things. Mainly a special air nailer that I guess he does need for the siding. One plus, it can also use fine brads, so might be useful for smaller crafts by me later on, like making picture frames or bird houses.
He also bought a battery powered weed/grass whacker, that might be easier to use than our gas one. The gas one is very hard to start, so I end up not using it that much on my own. This new battery one can be used with other attachments too. Might make a few jobs easier.
I was able to sell the old wooden windows that we took out of the house when we put in the new vinyl ones!
A woman came to get them today, and she uses them as frames for stained glass windows. I'm very glad that they will get a new life, because they are beautiful. I hated to replace them, as they were one of the things I loved about this kind of house, but there are many benefits to the new windows.
I'm happy we got some money for them, and happy they aren't going to the landfill or rotting in a shed somewhere. They were also taking up a ton of space in the garage.
We gave her some vegetables too.
We had to pick the remaining zucchini from the garden, and cucumbers, as we had a hard frost recently, and more are coming. The root vegetables will be fine for a while, but everything else is done now.
I went to see River, today we had a lesson.
He did well with our work on the freestyle, practiced a liberty pattern we hope to record next week for an online class, and we did ridden work too (spirals) and he was better with the left lead.
Our new homework is to get some lightness and finesse with the side pass and turn on hindquarters under saddle, as patterns for the liberty association will start to include more of those as we work up to harder patterns.
I came home and looked at the tools my Sweetie purchased, and the bit of progress he made today.
We came in and watched one episode of "Wednesday", and my husband called for an early turn in.
I learned that space is a great place to do research and development of drugs and therapies, partly because you can get some very complicated work done in microgravity that is difficult to do in Earth's full gravity; things like smaller crystal formation in protein and not getting sedimentation or settling in solutions.
https://cen.acs.org/pharmaceuticals/drug-development/Pharma-goes-space-drug-development/100/i40
What's also interesting to me, is that doing medical research in space often means using the astronauts themselves as participants, so you have the issue of things like: is the willingness to participate in medical testing going to affect the selection of future astronauts, and because this research is taking place in the ISS, there are issues of security between countries as the time and space on the ISS is investments made by private companies and also countries.
How about potential issues of sabotage, or even something like avoiding laws and ethical restrictions that exist on Earth, but could be bypassed in space? I don't know how International law works in space.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK223775/#:~:text=Stringent%20standards%20must%20be%20applied,trustworthy%20from%20the%20astronauts'%20perspective.
