sartorial testing

Today was again cold and wet, but I tested something out. I wore one of my Utilikilts and also took along a pair of long underwear in my backpack. Before heading home when it was extra cold and wet, I put them on. (Easy enough to do wearing a skirt, of course.) Worked pretty well! I wouldn't want to do it for long excursions, but for getting home it worked just fine. This was my old pair of cotton longjohns; I have a nice synthetic wicking pair which would work even better in the rain but they were dirty. The kilt itself got a bit drenched, but it's thick enough that it wasn't a problem even though it is also cotton. I'm glad to have the option to wear a kilt in this kind of weather. And I do like the long underwear under a kilt look. It appeals to the grungy PNW guy in me.

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In the lab, working on the thesis. I'm still at about 40 pages, and while there are still some graphs to be added, I'm reaching the point where I just need to write a whole bunch more. (60 pages is a decent target.) Unfortunately I tend to be very terse when it comes to technical writing, so it will be more of less of a struggle from here on out. Maybe I'll put together an explanatory diagram for the introduction.

Spent a lot of the day watching the health care coverage on C-SPAN. I can't believe it has actually passed the House! Watching the Clinton attempt fail was one of the first things I really paid attention to, politically. Even with all the flaws, just getting this far is amazing. It just needs to be good enough that no one will be able to get rid of it. I don't mind incremental improvements at that point.