{"id":1905,"date":"2014-07-29T09:20:25","date_gmt":"2014-07-29T13:20:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/?p=1905"},"modified":"2014-07-29T09:20:25","modified_gmt":"2014-07-29T13:20:25","slug":"tuesday-29-july-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2014\/07\/29\/tuesday-29-july-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday, 29 July 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #000099; font-family: Arial;\">09:16 &#8211;<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"> In the rush to build science kits this time of year, one thing I keep forgetting is to hold back enough chemical bags to make up refill kits. For example, when I made up another batch of chemistry kits over the weekend, I held back two sets of the regulated and non-regulated chemical bags. I shipped one of those yesterday and the other this morning, taking me down to zero available. That means to fill the next order I get for a refill kit I&#8217;ll have to remove those bags from a completed chemistry kit. Same deal on biology kits. I held back four sets of chemical bags for those, of which I have only one left.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<hr style=\"width: 65%; height: 3px; font-family: Arial;\" \/>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">For many years, I&#8217;ve been the official maintainer of the Cutieness Index (CI), a list of women ranked numerically by cutieness. Officially, the scores ran from 0.000 to 0.999, until <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=B0s-8mXk0wM\">Amber Marshall<\/a> completely blew away the top score by earning more than 0.999. (My ranking spreadsheet ran out of room on Amber&#8217;s entry, so I have no idea how much higher she actually scored.) I suspect the other cuties may be annoyed with Amber for messing up the curve.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">Until Amber arrived on the scene, Emily VanCamp had held the top position for several years, at 0.983. But Barbara and I are now up to series five of Dawson&#8217;s Creek, and Katie Holmes is now at 0.979 and gaining on Emily.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>09:16 &#8211; In the rush to build science kits this time of year, one thing I keep forgetting is to hold back enough chemical bags to make up refill kits. For example, when I made up another batch of chemistry kits over the weekend, I held back two sets of the regulated and non-regulated chemical bags. I shipped one of those yesterday and the other this morning, taking me down to zero available. That means to fill the next order I get for a refill kit I&#8217;ll have to remove those bags from a completed chemistry kit.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2014\/07\/29\/tuesday-29-july-2014\/\">&nbsp;&raquo;&nbsp;Read more about: Tuesday, 29 July 2014 &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":[39,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-science-kits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1905","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=1905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1905\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}