Paper is finished

Well it took a week of 11 hour days but I finished my paper yesterday. If anyone wants to know anything at all about saponins, you can come to me. So now that that is done I will regale you all with my birthday BBQ.

Jenn and I went for a delicious pot luck BBQ with the rest of my lab gang down in Cambridge (about an hour south of us). I had a delicious double cheeseburger and tried some interesting salsa that Dr. Lee got from a military biomedical research company (?). It had hints of honey and cocoa. Then came my cake which was adorned with sparklers. It was delicious (we also had a cranberry cheesecake later around the fire). And I got a 8 GB memory stick which I think they knew I needed because my last one died. I had brought my dead one into the lab to look under the microscope to determine if it was a damaged circuit. Anyway the rest of the evening was spent around the fire.

And if that was not enough, Jenn took me out to a apparently famous breakfast spot in Kitchener ("Country Boy") the next day and made me a roast with homemade rolls and pumpkin cheesecake for dinner! So it was a great birthday.

Thank you everyone for the birthday wishes.

P.S. - Here is a picture of Jennifer and Cooper trying out the new sleeping bag.