Randy On Vacation!

[Randy Holmes-Farley]

I'm on vacation for the next 2 1/2 weeks, but I'll try to limit my time in the pool so that we can keep all RC members at optimal calcium and alkalinity levels.

Answers may be slower than usual, however. So be patient. :)

Happy Reefing.

[Boomer]

Again !! . Do you ever work :D Much slower, I'll be gone for the weekend ;)

[Randy Holmes-Farley]

Do you ever work

Not if I don't have to. :D

[Hobster]

He is probably testing the pool water and then be able to write off the vacation as "work":D

[Randy Holmes-Farley]

Hey, I didn't think of that. :thumbsup:

[juststartingout]

Randy, enjoy your well deserved vacation.:bum: :dance:

[jmkins]

Hi Randy,
I'm a newb and a fellow chemist, albeit a surface chemist. I've never tried making a 55 gallon solution but will give it my best shot next month.

[Randy Holmes-Farley]

I'm a newb and a fellow chemist, albeit a surface chemist.

Hey, so was I, before getting into pharmaceuticals. Maybe you saw that in the thread giving my background. What types of surfaces?


By a 55 gallon solution, you mean your tank?

[jmkins]

I just read your background. Whitesides, wow! I am working on bottom up fab, including microcontact printing. I just finished my first yr of my PhD, I came from a Chemistry background but am in Biomed. Engr now. I wanted to do organic or medicinal but thought a faculty spot would be easier to get right now in BME. Anyways enjoy your vacation.

[jmkins]

Yeah sorry by 55 I meant my tank. I've seen firsthand how bad I can mess up some of my 50 ml reactions.

[Randy Holmes-Farley]

Great, good luck on the surface chemistry!

[Randy Holmes-Farley]

I'm baaaaaaaack. :)

[thackray]

Randy,

Welcome back!

You mentioned mint ice cream in one of your posts while on vacation. I've made a lot of ice cream in my day. My fondest homemade ice cream memory was blueberry made from the tiny wild blueberries on an island in the Georgian Bay. The flavor - the color - AAAAhhhh.

How do you incorporate the mint leaves. Do you have an extraction process (that makes this a chemistry question) or do you just add the leaves? I use mint in other recipies - I usually grow spearmint (in an isolated container of course).

TIA

Phil Thackray

[Randy Holmes-Farley]

We cooked the leaves in some milk, egg, and sugar, then let it sit in the fridge for several hours, then filtered off the leaves, added the cream, and off we went.

Wild blueberry sounds good! We also made several batches of wild black raspberry, which grow all over our place. :)