Biking: So far so good. I did the bluebonnet express as I mentioned previously last week. So far I'm averaging 80-100 miles per week. This week I went into the gym on Wed and rode for 10 mi on Thur. Maybe another short bike ride today, a long one tomorrow, and who knows bout Sun. Sunday is the Great Escape, and I promised to help with that. Dunno if they'll let me ride it or not. It's being put on by our club; last night we stuffed packets, basically on 'charity rides' like this you get a packet with a ton of little fliers from the sponsors and different organizations that want your money (including charity bike rides). So we ended up stuffing one thousand packets. I think only about 500 people will actually show, b/c the weather will be rainy (i hope i'm wrong). ANyway, it'll be interesting.

Work: I started last week (officially) so far so good. I now don't have a computer, the common use PC at lab died two days ago (with my lab presentation on it). I'm progressing alot with my experimental techniques and am no longer being hampered by that issue. That's usually the case w/ me; the experiment is done well, but the result is negative. So anyway i got yet another negative result, looking for the mythical SETA/Alix interaction. I desparately need to get this to work for my research project; and previous people in this lab have gotten it to work. So I am hopeful. I think the reason why I haven't gotten it to work is biological; basically I've been using Alix fragments which may have altered conformation. Anyway i'll test that hypothesis starting today.

SO things are pretty good, we (J&I) may or may not adopt another ferret; the ferret shelter is at max capacity currently.