{"id":417,"date":"2012-01-27T09:09:20","date_gmt":"2012-01-27T13:09:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/?p=417"},"modified":"2012-01-27T09:09:20","modified_gmt":"2012-01-27T13:09:20","slug":"friday-27-january-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2012\/01\/27\/friday-27-january-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday, 27 January 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #000099; font-family: Arial;\">08:09 &#8211;<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"> I should finish the lab session on simulated DNA gel electrophoresis today and get it off to the reviewers. Finish in the sense of finish writing it. I haven&#8217;t actually done the lab session yet. I&#8217;ll do it this weekend, when we&#8217;ll also be shooting a lot of images for it and other lab sessions. That leaves only the introduction, which is in progress. It looks like we&#8217;re actually going to make the 31 January deadline.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">Not that things settle down much after that. In addition to a flow of of queries and edits, I have to get the kit contents finalized and purchase orders cut for components. The biology book hits the bookstores in April, and by that time I want to have 60 finished biology kits in inventory and ready to ship, along with components in the pipeline for many more.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">The next project is a complete re-write of the forensics lab book that we finished a couple of years ago but was never published. I want to rewrite that book around a custom kit, which will make it much more accessible to home schoolers and hobbyists. I&#8217;d like to have that book complete, at least in PDF form, and kits available in time for summer session, although realistically it&#8217;ll probably be in time for autumn semester.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">Farther out, but still on the horizon, I&#8217;d like to do a second edition of Illustrated Guide to Home Chemistry Experiments, this one kit-based. Two kits, actually. One for first-year labs (the current chemistry kit) and one for second-year.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">It&#8217;s going to be a busy year.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<hr style=\"width: 65%; height: 3px; font-family: Arial;\" \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>08:09 &#8211; I should finish the lab session on simulated DNA gel electrophoresis today and get it off to the reviewers. Finish in the sense of finish writing it. I haven&#8217;t actually done the lab session yet. I&#8217;ll do it this weekend, when we&#8217;ll also be shooting a lot of images for it and other lab sessions. That leaves only the introduction, which is in progress. It looks like we&#8217;re actually going to make the 31 January deadline.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2012\/01\/27\/friday-27-january-2012\/\">&nbsp;&raquo;&nbsp;Read more about: Friday, 27 January 2012 &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":[11,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-kits","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417","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=417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}