Holidays
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I made about a third of the prototype for my Christmas labels. Making it is already teaching me the needs of the project, so I’m hoping I can get through the rest of it this week and make whatever preparations I need for the actual labels.
Productivity
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I didn’t do much of anything on the productivity system. It’s only a side project at the moment, but the slow progress on both that and the Christmas project remind me some weeks will be more projectful than others. Sometimes you’re too busy working late, blogging, practicing music, and otherwise dragging yourself tiredly through your evenings. But I do want to increase my project time even then.
Nature
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I took my first water sample of this season’s chloride testing. I decided to volunteer again this year (see my blog post from last year), and this time I was able to get an early start before the first snow like the organization prefers. I chose the same sampling site, both to make the setup easier and to let the organization compare data for the same site over multiple years. I found out that last year my site’s chloride numbers were only sort of high compared to some other sites, so I have a bit of context for judging how well the numbers turn out this year.
My friend Jeremy tagged along and helped me grab a decent amount of water in the bucket, which was fighting our attempts to fill it, maybe because we were tipping it in a downstream direction rather than upstream. So far, so good: The chloride level from this test was 119 PPM, a little less than last year’s first sample from mid-December.
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