It’s not my fault though, I swear. You see, ryeth normally posts about all the day to day things, so I don’t duplicate what she does. That means I only post about unique goings on around our house (or scientific/social diatribes). But, due to our fucked up patent system in America, if you tell people about what you are working on before you patent it, you loose the right to patent it (tell people in a public sense, you can tell individuals privately, but mass dissemination is out). Well, I’m working on some research in my spare time, and some of it appears to possibly be patentable, so I can’t talk about it. That’s why I’ve been so quite lately. However, I can say that I’m now able to freeze dry small samples of things at my home and I can say that I think I’ve come up with a design for equipment that will simplify the mechanical requirements of freeze drying. I just can’t say *how* my design does so or that would kill the patentable part of it ;-)