I have spent the last few weeks training someone to be able to share my job with me and today he quit. Got a better-paying job. Pretty annoying, especially since this is a seriously difficult job to train someone in and I have been pretty exhausted. Good thing I had a day off yesterday, part of which I spent at the Academy of Sciences. Now it's back to square one, the drawing board, the beginning. At least I got some better insights on how to train someone, so not a total waste of time.
HIT IT & QUIT IT

I think I have been spending too much time looking at Ikea furniture...
PLOK

I've been working blissfully alone for 6 months, and that is coming to a partial end. We have hired someone to split their time between my building and the one in Berkeley, and I will be training him pretty full-time for several weeks. I will have to re-organize my office so it's not a bunch of piles that I know what is happening to. I am glad, because sometimes I am swamped, but also sad, because I like my little universe.

ALL ALONE