Happy Halloween!

new schedule

i think it is more practical if i write once a week. i'll try to write more but once a week will be the bare minimum! anyways... i've been working hard trying to find the mutation in one of my mouse strains. it's been quite an illusive end. but i will be sequencing several genes at once and hopefully i will get lucky. i really want to have a good complete story for my two mouse strains by the time i present a poster at ASH (American Society of Hematology) Meeting December 9-12. i'm pretty excited as this will be my first meeting that i will be attending and it definitely helps that it will be in Orlando, Florida. josephine is also be going. she's actually going to Florida this week for some other meeting. lucky her!

i'll try to work hard but i'll probably end up playing lots of video games. speaking of video games, i just got Splinter Cell: Double Agent two days ago. great follow up to Chaos Theory. i highly recommend it. another something i would recommend is "Heroes" on NBC. what an intersting show!

this past weekend we celebrated my mom and dad's birthday. they have birthday's a week apart. it was nice to have dinner and cake with them. we went to Brassa Grill down in the warehouse district. brazillian style grill of about 15 different types of meat! all you can eat!! it was delicious. oh yea! HAPPY BIRTHDAY MOM! HAPPY BIRTHDAY DAD!

Happy Bosses Day!

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The Culprits...

and yet another lag

Hello everybody, I know this is yet another apology for not posting, but I've been so busy. Josephine and I actually have both been extremely busy. Especially Jo since she is currently managing work with writing a paper with Joe AND taking classes. But she's wonderful and has been a great wife through it all. I feel bad, I can't help her out more and sometimes I get stressed out by the thought of not being able to help her. Which really doesn't help the situation at all!

Anyway, tomorrow is a Chinese holiday. So my family are coming up from Mansfield and having dinner with her family who come down from Toronto. It will be great to see the big family! But I really wish I could see my parents more.

Have you guys heard about the cola that helps you burn calories? It's by Coca-Cola called ENVIGA. Another start up has also made one called Celsius. Looks interesting! Drinking one cola will help you burn 7-100 calories. Hmmm... sounds fishy. Wonder if it'll make me go to the toilet like Olestra? But I'm a sucker for new drinks so I'll let you know as soon as I try it. The secret ingredient is chromium which is suppose to boost metabolism. I need that... I think...

I'll try the one from Coca-Cola first! Another COLA WAR has begun!! Pepsi will join soon enough!