Happy Penultimate Day!

There's no way that I'd be able to put down everything that's happened in the days since I left the East Coast. Well, okay, there's one way, but that would involve hours of writing and I'd rather spend those with my family and/or reading my most recent literary acquisition: Neal Stephenson's Cryptonomicon

That having been said, ( on with the post! )

Golden Opportunity

One of my brothers is a glassblower. He's been doing it for several years and, I would say, has become rather proficient. While he was at Iowa State he was able to use their glassblowing facility and supplies to develop his skills, but now that he has graduated he has to rent time at a glassblowing club and provide more of his own supplies. This is why, yesterday, he was opening a package containing several small sheets of gold leaf.

Not being one to let such a chance to reproduce a famous experiment slip through my fingers, ( I asked if I might use a few small strips of it. )