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Garden in Verona / Italy by Thomas Frejek on Flickr.
Tang is waiting for me to sleep.
Emerald Lake morning solitude 02 by [IQ] on Flickr.
So lovely... <3
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New Year, big changes. We bought a house after learning that my granddaughter WILL be moving in with us soon. We take possession of the house on 31 JAN 2013, and she will be coming next month, date uncertain as of yet. And someone is away AGAIN. Ugh, winter.
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untitled by Emily Szabo on Flickr.
Someone is away again....and Oh, we have five cats now and maybe a grandchild living here soon.
Well, just updating my online life after a hack of my email account by someone in Vietnam?!?! I realized that I have not posted here in a long time, and since I am on a week's vacation, this is the perfect opportunity to do so. I always think I would like to use tumblr more often, but then I get distracted by life, work, cats, baking, pinterest, Skyrim and the like. Oh yes, cats. We have five now....that is apparently one under the limit where our house is on the verge of becoming a house of "crazy cat people". So one more then? We have Tang, Snap and Sivie, and now also Lola and Zoey (apparently her name is supposed to be "Zooee" or something like that, but I am rebelling. I do not call pigs on a daily basis, so it will be spelled "Zoey", like a normal person. Or cat, rather. They are settled in by now, having arrived in August. Oh my goodness, we have gone on a cruise since then. Well, maybe I will post some pics from that soon. Chronological order? What's that? Anyway, Zoey is a rather large cat, and Lola was too, when I had seen her last. She was in March as well, when Dave had visited his brother in Edmonton for his niece's first birthday (that's where the cats were, until Michael's wife, Jessica, developed an allergy to cats). When they arrived here, Lola was a shadow of her former self, weighing in at around 9 lbs. When we got back from our cruise in mid September, she was down to 7 lbs, 4 oz. To the vet. Blood work and tests. Pills. Vomitting and more weight loss along with yellowing of the skin. Stop the pills. New food, isolated from the other cats at meal times. Weight coming back, pink skin, more active Lola. :) She is a much happier kitty now, and the other cats are complaining because they like to graze. Well, too bad. Maybe Zoey and Silvie will lose a bit of weight.
As for the grandchild news, it isn't really news yet, but might be soon.
Zoey:
And Lola:
Oh the duck with the diva attitude!
Ultrathin and lightweight organic solar cells with high flexibility
The only way that solar power is ever going to contribute an appreciable amount of energy to the betterment (and cheaperment) of society is if we plaster solar panels on everything, everywhere, all the time. And we might just be able to do it now, with this new generation of panels that are thinner than a strand of human hair by a factor of 20.
Thin doesn’t just mean lightweight (although these panels are very lightweight), it also means flexible. At 1.9 micrometers thick, the plastic foil cells are, for all practical purposes, elastic. So, you can layer them onto clothing, for example, and not only will you not be able to feel any additional weight, but the panels will be able to flex and crumple right along with the fabric without damaging anything.
Beyond applications requiring flexibility, solar cells that don’t take up any space and don’t weigh anything become an obvious thing to stick on to all sorts of surfaces just because you can. Back of a cellphone? Sure! Roof of your car? Sounds good! Bottom of your swimming pool? Why not!
The current generation of these cells can only convert 4.2% of sunlight into electricity (which is terrible, to be honest), but by the time commercial availability rolls around in five years or so, our hope is that that number will get bumped up enough to make it worthwhile to start putting this stuff on everything.
[via] [paper] [photo credit: Kaltenbrunner etal.]
First tattoo, rather late in the game.
I'm getting my first tattoo on Thursday. I'm 39. I have been thinking about getting one since I was 16 or so, on and off. Whenever I would go into a place and start to look around I could never make my mind up, so I never did get one. And back when I was in my late teens it was still very much a biker/metal/punk/rebel thing to do. I'm glad I didn't get one back then because it probably would have been the lil devil out of the Wendy comics. Anyway, flash forward to 2011 and I've been thinking of getting a himalayan blue poppy tattooed on myself for the last five years or so. I've paid for the sketch and previewed it, and have my appointment set. I guess I just wanted to tell the faceless void of the Internet that I am taking the plunge. Finally. Just going to breathe :)