08:03 – Barbara’s dad may go home from the hospital today. Barbara and her sister were surprised yesterday when the doctors said her dad might be released, but he is doing a lot better. Barbara and her sister laid down the law to the doctors, and told them that they’d take Dutch home if and only if he didn’t have any tubes remaining in him. This has been going on in one form or another since May, and they simply can’t deal any more with almost daily (or nightly) trips to the doctor or hospital for tests and treatments.
So we’re going to try to have an almost normal weekend. Unless there’s some kind of emergency, Barbara plans to spend the weekend at home doing regular stuff. I wanted her to take a couple of days off so she could just relax, but she insists she wants to work on kit stuff. So this morning I’ll do laundry and we’ll do final assembly on the current batch of 30 chemistry kits. Which is good, because with overnight orders our current inventory of chemistry kits stands at minus two. Once we complete final assembly on that batch and ship the outstanding orders today, we’ll get started assembling another new batch of 30 chemistry kits and building subassemblies for the first batch of 30 forensic science kits.