Zinc is not my friend

As I have had a fight with Zinc, I have been forging ahead with some Copper based compounds that seem to be progressing nicely. Secretly happy with my plans, it looks like I will actually have some results within the next few months - yay! I made one very complicated thing, which has a unit cell size of 30 x 30 x 80 (this is quite big). I think there are 60 atoms in the asymmetric unit cell. Not the most atoms I've dealt with, but as it is so porous it is very big. Thus the unit cell is very complicated. Its also not cubic - but rhombohedral (trigonal in the hexagonal setting). Anyway - I'm all excited and couldn't sleep the other night because of it.

Also happy to discover that Karins mum is Australian. Very good news, will go and eat some Pavlova to celebrate.

Went to the climbing gym last night and did some yellows. This is good for me - haven't climbed yellows in a while - my hands felt good. I didn't want to push it so I only did two before stopping for the night. I had already climbed four greens though. I think yellow is about 5-10/easy 5-11. Not sure. Its inside so its hard to tell. I also did a spin class yesterday and Mikl has been to aerobics(!!!!!!) so we were both a bit sleepy and went to bed early. I woke up to find Mikl gone and that he had spent the night on the couch. He said I was all kicky in the night. Maybe my knees were hurting me?

The weather is turning slowly here (not like it does in the northern states), but I've started sleeping with a light blanket at night and wearing long sleeves when I go out at night.

In other knitting news I bought some bright coloured yarn for a pair of socks for my friend, and a shitload of baby wool for the products of my two pregnant friends. I'm trying to make booties with bunny ears, but its slightly more friustrating that my issue with the Zinc compounds.