Avoided the cough plague for more than a month, only to get a fever from another bug yesterday. So it goes. Started doing imaging of brain slices last Friday. We used a confocal microscope which gets us pretty close to the diffraction limit, so the images looked pretty beautiful. The post-doc I've been working with pointed out the various regions of the hippocampus that were of interest to us and zooming in on them, we could easily see the floating balls of the nucleous structures within each cell's nucleus. Sadly the actual results we were looking for (correlation of some factor with diseased slices) were negative, but the whole process was novel enough that I didn't mind. Forgot to put them on my flash drive, but I may post images next week.