Today we visited a user at a company whose name I am not allowed to reveal, but I wish I was, because then at least my work might appear to intersect somewhat with the daily life of normal people.\u00c2\u00a0 Let’s just say that digital photography changed this company’s business quite a bit.\u00c2\u00a0 The user owns one of our microscopes and after it returned from repair at our company it seemed not to work.\u00c2\u00a0 Fortunately, I got it working without really doing anything except re-starting Windows.\u00c2\u00a0 Some things never change.\u00c2\u00a0 What did surprise me was the youth of our customer and his shoulder-length hair with a reddish-brown tint; every now and then he’d brush his hair out of his face before talking.\u00c2\u00a0 The plant, by the way, consists of\u00c2\u00a0cuboid buildings, tanks, and pipes.\u00c2\u00a0 Nigel would have loved it.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n
For lunch we ate at a bakery<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 I had “gruy\u00c3\u00a8re bread,” which is a soft\u00c2\u00a0roll with a thin square of cheese burnt to the top that tastes like the\u00c2\u00a0crust on the bottom of the fondue pan.\u00c2\u00a0 It still made me happy.\u00c2\u00a0 My standards are lowered here.\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n Back at the office I set up the microscope I brought from Switzerland in preparation of tomorrow’s customer visit.\u00c2\u00a0 I then headed home without going out because I was tired.\u00c2\u00a0 I came home to find out that once again the dry cleaner had refused to clean my underpants and my socks.\u00c2\u00a0 I don’t quite understand.\u00c2\u00a0 If I was a dry cleaner, I’d take the stuff, wash it for cheap, and take a nice profit.\u00c2\u00a0 Do dry cleaners here feel underwear is beneath them?\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n I ate dinner at a Korean barbecue place across the road from the hotel.\u00c2\u00a0 The area I’m staying in is not only “stimulating,” it is also chockers with Korean restaurants.\u00c2\u00a0 Of course, I ate one pepper I should not have and nothing tasted the same thereafter.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n Now it’s off to an early bedtime, with the same ingredients that brought success yesterday: complete exhaustion and happoshu<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 Today’s choice: Kirin Tanrei<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Today we visited a user at a company whose name I am not allowed to reveal, but I wish I was, because then at least my work might appear to intersect somewhat with the daily life of normal people.\u00c2\u00a0 Let’s just say that digital photography changed this company’s business quite a bit.\u00c2\u00a0 The user owns one of our microscopes and after it returned from repair at our company it seemed not to work.\u00c2\u00a0 Fortunately, I got it working without really doing anything except re-starting Windows.\u00c2\u00a0 Some things never change.\u00c2\u00a0 What did surprise me was the youth of our customer and his shoulder-length hair with a reddish-brown tint; every now and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,8,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}