{"id":1382,"date":"2013-08-16T14:36:01","date_gmt":"2013-08-16T18:36:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/?p=1382"},"modified":"2013-08-16T14:36:01","modified_gmt":"2013-08-16T18:36:01","slug":"friday-16-august-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2013\/08\/16\/friday-16-august-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday, 16 August 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #000099; font-family: Arial;\">14:36 &#8211;<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"> I&#8217;m still building and shipping science kits. Today marks the start of our busiest 30-day period of the year, from mid-August to mid-September. We&#8217;re still in pretty good shape on kits, both in terms of finished-goods inventory and the subassemblies needed to build more kits on-the-fly. Unless something completely unexpected happens we should be able to avoid back-ordering kits.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">People who see something I&#8217;ve printed may think I&#8217;m a tweenage girl. I use blue, black, red, green, and brown Sharpies for routine stuff. One of them died this morning and I was looking for a replacement. I thought about ordering a dozen in mixed colors, but that&#8217;d be gratuitous. I have a gross of them sitting on the foyer table that UPS delivered yesterday and a bunch more in an inventory bin downstairs. The only problem is, they&#8217;re purple. We use purple Sharpies in the chemistry kits because the purple ink works well for paper chromatography. So I decided to ignore my preference for non-purple colors and just grabbed one of them from stock. I&#8217;m practicing dotting my i&#8217;s with little hearts.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<hr style=\"width: 65%; height: 3px; font-family: Arial;\" \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>14:36 &#8211; I&#8217;m still building and shipping science kits. Today marks the start of our busiest 30-day period of the year, from mid-August to mid-September. We&#8217;re still in pretty good shape on kits, both in terms of finished-goods inventory and the subassemblies needed to build more kits on-the-fly. Unless something completely unexpected happens we should be able to avoid back-ordering kits.\n<\/p>\n<p>People who see something I&#8217;ve printed may think I&#8217;m a tweenage girl.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2013\/08\/16\/friday-16-august-2013\/\">&nbsp;&raquo;&nbsp;Read more about: Friday, 16 August 2013 &nbsp;&raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-kits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1382\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}