Yulran 🌱 @Yulran@yulran.masto.host

The sky is blue and the almost-noon sun is poking it head a little above the houses!
Listening to my group meeting, enjoying from the balcony my first sun rays in weeks

Here's my least bad shot of the woodpecker! Apparently it's looking for ants.

Good morning

All of you from places which have routinely snow on the ground, please indulge me, but I am currently very excitedly staring at the window

Well, hello memories

Well they did exactly describe my father

I present to you: ARGGG.png

Nice plots but terrible math, and also:
what is again wrong with my measurements

Today I went waterskiing for the first time! Courtesy of my graduate school.

The first time I fell at the first corner and had to walk back a painful rocky path barefoot for ten minutes, so it was very motivating to learn quickly. Afterwards I got a fealing for it and I was able to do several full turns of the lake without falling unless getting distracted.

My officemate made a video from me starting my third turn!

I painted the shelves upside down and I don't have enough paint left to paint the other side now.
But it's ok! At least I can store things on the top shelf and they won't fall.

I'm also trying a new techniques to keep my tomatoes happy longer: to keep the stem in water.
I'm not sure anymore where I read they should be kept out of the fridge and stem down so that their humidity doesn't escape, so I guess with the stem actually in water if should be even better? Let's see.

I got crafty again! I had some stuff I didn't know where to put so yesterday I decided to build another set of cardboard shelves. This time just improvising with the rest of the cardboard I had, but still following the same idea as the previous one.
I just glued the front panel, and yesterday I had glued the 3 shelves on the back one.

I am happy to report that my saturday in the lab is productive.

It's so much easier to fit the refractive index of only one material!!! Why did I bother calculating the transmission matrices of plastic and air surrounding my crystal!

When the solution was to just punch a hole in my plastic, glue the crystal inside so that it doesn't slide away, and so I can still tape the plastic in front of my laser beam but the laser is only going through the crystal

(I'm very excited when I didn't sleep much.)

I'll soon be allowed out, in the meantime here is a picture my boyfriend took of me trying to befriend a cat.

The ones outside suffered more. I think my potatoes got very unhappy and the one with random unidentified seeds also got very dry. But now I realized it actually contains some rhubarbs!
My Swedish landlord sent them to me three years ago but they got moldy so I wasn't hoping anything when I threw them there. Plants are magic!

Also while I couldn't take care of them, all my paprika seeds from random supermarket paprikas grew a lot, and my bottom of salads are getting high.

I noticed yesterday some weird insects on my succulents when I wanted to water then. Mealy bugs I guess? Not that many so I could remove them manually. It gave me the excuse to separate them and put them in a bigger pot.
(Insects picture)

Perfect

I didn't want to work late tonight so I started painting the shelves before the sun disappears. I still had some acrylic an colleague left me two years ago, the cap of the tube is actually cracked, it was time to empty them.

I ran out of tape but I had still some proper glue. If tomorrow it's property fixed, I could paint it and I would be still cooler than a chair!