Music stuff:

I've been working on an album for some time now. It's really pretty close to ready. But I think it needs a couple more songs on it.

flac and I have also been shuttling songs back and forth and I think there's some really cool stuff coming out of it

Work stuff:

I'm taking over a lab and I am in the process of getting everything ship-shape. The lab was supposedly functional not long before I had arrived, but had a documentation procedure which can be described as document nothing, and a data infrastructure that consisted of literal piles of unlabelled loose hard drives, among other fun systems. I got some things in good enough order last week that I could process some samples for grad students and earn the lab its first $280--no $32--no $96? I'm not really sure yet because the pricing schedule I'm stuck with for the next month is absurd and probably mislabeled. The service probably should cost $32, but the strictest interpretation of the schedule is upwards of $280 because the previous guy gouged the fuck out of basic services.

Mead:

Made a gallon of orange mead (technically melomel) the other week. It's happily bubbling on the counter. I haven't made any in some time. I still have bottles of previous batches that I wasn't a big fan of. We'll see how this goes.