Had a chance to sit and talk to dad today. I’ve seen him every day this week. Still found things to talk about.

I was out walking today. At the path by Skinner Butte park the marathon runners were exercising and a bunch of them swept past me with a loud whooshing sound. Man, those dudes are fast. I’m just amazed. So little body fat.

My first couchsurfing guests in quite a while are here. The guy’s a PhD candidate from Germany, living in Hawaii, studying vaccines and nanobodies and shit and goddam it was interesting talking to him. Sooo smart. He’s working on perfecting vaccine production techniques for some really virulent shit. Marburg viruses are one of them. So how the viruses are studied is by using llamas, and he’s making a procedure that makes it possible to not use llamas, because keeping llamas is apparently very expensive lol. Also not very ethical either, like why using monkeys in science experiments is not ok. So anyway I asked him a bunch of questions and he got really tired of talking about it lol. Poor guy, he’s on a vacation.

Nice day.

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