I got a new project today at the weekly meeting. One of the researchers, Dr. Hamilton, needs some graph mockups for a paper he's writing that's due Friday. I ended up just creating them in Open Office Calc (like Microsoft Office Excel). We're still going over changes, but I've gotten a 3rd draft of one set and 2nd draft of the other sent off. Dr. Keller would also like a graph from me based on the web page I've been working on, so in between working on Dr. Hamilton's graphs (and working out the aftermath of a fender bender I had Sunday), I've been trying to get that graph to display better. (The labels on the x-axis tend to overlap if too many weeks are displayed.) I did find and fix the bug where data after midnight is displayed as the next day (leading to data like "June 1 June 2 June 2 June 4 June 5").

I need to find out from Nate about some interesting data for a person that occurred some months back, and I need to get Dr. Hamilton's feedback on his graphs so I can get any changes out to him. I also have some hand-written notes on scrap paper about things I need to work on. One of those things is learning to use image manipulation software. It's becoming more and more apparent that this is a gap in my learning that I need to address. If these mockups had been less simple, I could have been in some trouble, and this isn't the first time I've felt the need to know how to use something more advanced than Paintbrush!