Random

Who knew there are endless rules for the pinning of insects? I said this was going to be random... Their little legs and antennae must be placed, they can't be positioned in any way except horizontally, they should face left, and flies' heads should be turned. The insect must be five millimeters above the first I.D. slip and ten millimeters above the second I.D. slip. The pin should be on the right side of the thorax. The most useful tidbit is that, by refrigerating your dead insects before pinning them, they lose some of that disgusting crunchiness when the pin is first inserted.
We feared a killing freeze two nights ago, so I picked all the beans, ready or not. They are hanging by their stems, upside down and there are hundreds of them. The winners so far are Arikara and black turtle.

 Followed by brown Norwegian and (yes!) Petaluma gold rush. But with hundreds of pods still to count the final results could be completely different.
We would all probably like to have our own dolipore septa with perforated parenthesomes but unless you are a homobasidiomycete it is just not going to happen. Sorry. Which reminds me. I hate a certain size. It is the size that things are when they are just about too small to get a good look at with a compound microscope. You know, the size that people who already know what these things should look like say "you can see it right next to the (insert word like dolipore) if you look carefully." So you look carefully and all you can see is tiny smudges that look exactly like the smudges on the far side of your range of view. I think that is about two microns. Stupid smudges. 
OK, one last thing. Do you think a reputable chocolate company should charge eight dollars for a box of chocolates when the pieces include varieties such as "spackling paste - toothpaste combo covered in dark chocolate" and "bathroom deodorizer flavored cream filling swirled wirh a milk chocolate nougat outside?" There are a number of companies here in M whose owning parties think if you just keep changing the smells and flavors of the products every two and a half weeks, you are bound to come up with that billion dollar creation no one can get enough of, sooner or later. I am convinced the recipe is simpler and more precise. I think I almost have it. You can buy a copy of the recipe in progress for only three dollars and forty seven cents, because it will have to go the USPS route. And you will have to sign a non-competition agreement. Someone will out and out steal it otherwise.