It sounds like everyone is having fun this Memorial Day weekend. I hope you all enjoy your time together with families and friends.

Kristin, my condolences for your grandfather.

I will be spending the weekend in Seattle - working! For reasons unknown to me (and most of my colleagues), the American Society for Mass Spectrometry are having their annual meeting beginning this weekend. I'll be spending from Saturday through to Wednesday with 6000 PhD chemists and physicists - such joy. Jim will be home in Boston playing golf and going to cookouts.

The best part of the holiday weekend for me is that I will get to see Fred and Pat - we are having lunch together this Friday prior to their departure for Europe.

Have a great weekend - please think kind thoughts on Saturday morning as I have to give an hour long speech to hundreds of people at our annual users meeting. I'm on draft five and still not satisfied with the presentation. Instead of continuing to work on it, I'm taking an LCT break - so much more fun than the real world.

Mary Ellen