{"id":2848,"date":"2016-06-03T09:27:34","date_gmt":"2016-06-03T13:27:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/?p=2848"},"modified":"2016-06-03T09:27:34","modified_gmt":"2016-06-03T13:27:34","slug":"friday-3-june-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2016\/06\/03\/friday-3-june-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday, 3 June 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"

09:27 –<\/span> We’re building more science kit subassemblies today, which we’ll be doing pretty much every day for the next two or three months. I issued purchase orders yesterday for a couple thousand dollars worth of components, which covers most of what we were short of.
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We’ve devoted most of our time this week to getting science kit subassemblies built for the autumn rush, so there hasn’t been much time for prepping activities. I did order and receive from Amazon a gallon of molasses<\/a>, which is used in cooking and baking to turn white granulated sugar into brown sugar, at a ratio of one tablespoon of molasses per cup of white sugar, and a couple cans of high-temperature flat black spray paint<\/a>, which we’ll use in converting 2-liter soda bottles into gardening pots for herbs and other plants that do well in containers.
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After 35 years of drinking coffee only occasionally, I’ve started drinking it regularly. One, or sometimes two, 10-ounce (~300 mL) mugs every morning. I’ve been playing around with different concentrations, and I’ve decided that 10 grams of ground coffee is enough for a 10-ounce mug. That means I get about 45 mugs per pound, or about 135 mugs per 3-pound can. At about $12 per three-pound can, Costco-branded Columbian coffee is about as good as any I’ve tried, and three of those cans is a one-year supply for one person, assuming one 10-ounce cup per day. Barbara and Frances don’t drink coffee. Al drinks much more than I do, but he also likes his coffee much weaker than I do, so six or seven cans should be plenty for the two of us. In the metal cans, the coffee has a long rated shelf life and I’m sure it’d still be fine for at least several years past the best-by date, so there’s no real down-side to keeping a good supply in our LTS pantry.
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09:27 – We’re building more science kit subassemblies today, which we’ll be doing pretty much every day for the next two or three months. I issued purchase orders yesterday for a couple thousand dollars worth of components, which covers most of what we were short of.\n<\/p>\n

We’ve devoted most of our time this week to getting science kit subassemblies built for the autumn rush, so there hasn’t been much time for prepping activities.<\/p>\n

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