perjantai 31. elokuuta 2012

Late spring-to-end of summer (1/2)

So, what took place between spring and end of summer.. first of all our computer broke down and swiftly pushed us to the stone age of communication.. well not litterally as the telephones were still working fine. But no blog entries..
Halle flew to USA for a couple of weeks in the beginning of our summer, spent her days sleeping and resting and enjoying little regression back to teenage years minus having a baby of course.
I slaved away at Oulu University lab and managed to fail a experiment twice!! I can't believe it.. I was there litterally round the clock trying to make this thing work out and nada.. as my supervisor says Confocal laser fluorescense microscope is little more complicated than a nitting needle.. it sure was and enzymes dont seem to work on command.




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We  made our way to Salo finland, through rather complicated cancel a flight- and trainticket routine with few euros spent for good measure. In Salo many things are called Salon, (genetive of Salo in Finnish), some will find that amusing..like we did.
I worked my first ever two months as a dentist, which was terrifying, fun, tiring and wonderful all at the same time.
Fo those who don't know where Salo is.. it is
 
 Oh wait, this is not salo, this is Elop firing 10% of workforce in Salo.. the place is

That is Salo, where we had the pleasure of speding this summer. we also took this

In the beginning of the summer, and this time the two lines on the tester were telling us to prepare a room for two babies also! needles to say I worked an extra week to prepare us for the coming of two needing little ones by the end of the year or early next year...