Where has the summer gone?
Sep. 6th, 2006 10:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hrjI like the cool, gray fog -- really I do. But it hardly seems time for summer to be over already. And yet, there in front of me is the key harbinger: the ripe quinces are starting to drop off the bush and the downstairs tenant is leaving them on my porch for collection, where they perfume the air wonderfully. Yum. The weekend was rather packed full of busy-ness. Finished painting the bathroom in the downstairs front apartment. Had apprentice day with ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
xrian. Had computer project organization day with SK. I now have an organized "to do" list for various computer/web/research/writing projects that contains 78 distinct items each coded by subject category, type of project, priority, and amount of work left to complete. I am such a geek. This evening was the first meeting of the biostatistics class I'm taking for "professional development". I don't expect it to be particularly difficult, but since the emphasis is on underlying concepts and appropriate applications, it's probably the most practical statistics class I could have found. Evidently the class is usually aimed at people trying to fulfill pre-med prerequisites, but this time it's about half people in some sort of research or industry job, so the professor is excited about what sorts of term projects we're likely to come up with. At work today, I got tagged for yet another "ohmighod we have to put out this fire" investigation project. (It would be nice if they let me close the last one before dumping the next one on me, but we don't exactly schedule when they happen.) It looks like it may provide me with some interesting exercise material for the statistics class. I wish I could talk more about my more fun investigations here, but I'd rather be safe than sorry, given that I'm committed to having public posts. Let's just say there's some fun data-mining, and tracking down correlations, and possibly seeing if it ties in with long-term production trends, and possibly coming up with some process improvements. Yum.
xrian. Had computer project organization day with SK. I now have an organized "to do" list for various computer/web/research/writing projects that contains 78 distinct items each coded by subject category, type of project, priority, and amount of work left to complete. I am such a geek. This evening was the first meeting of the biostatistics class I'm taking for "professional development". I don't expect it to be particularly difficult, but since the emphasis is on underlying concepts and appropriate applications, it's probably the most practical statistics class I could have found. Evidently the class is usually aimed at people trying to fulfill pre-med prerequisites, but this time it's about half people in some sort of research or industry job, so the professor is excited about what sorts of term projects we're likely to come up with. At work today, I got tagged for yet another "ohmighod we have to put out this fire" investigation project. (It would be nice if they let me close the last one before dumping the next one on me, but we don't exactly schedule when they happen.) It looks like it may provide me with some interesting exercise material for the statistics class. I wish I could talk more about my more fun investigations here, but I'd rather be safe than sorry, given that I'm committed to having public posts. Let's just say there's some fun data-mining, and tracking down correlations, and possibly seeing if it ties in with long-term production trends, and possibly coming up with some process improvements. Yum.
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Date: 2006-09-07 11:29 am (UTC)