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Testing is underway for the starch battery! We pretty much genetically modified a potato to consist of nothing but starch and I think it's going to power what we want to it. I'll have to try the batches with different amped objects and then see how long each one takes, and the experimentation process for that is going to take a while, but we're moving forward!

The word bank for the cat translator is slow moving progress though :( Apparently, our test cats are pretty reticent, which sucks. But whatever, I'm resigned to me not being able to finish this by the end of the year...it doesn't look too bright for the translator future.

Another thing that isn't bright for my future is that nii-san wants to foist his kid off on me for their anniversary in a week's time...it cries a lot. And won't sit still. I can barely deal with it for ten minutes, let alone a whole night. I don't know what I'm going to do >>;
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Contacted the bacteria article man...and he emailed back and it kinda went back and forth! He's really nice and willing to put up with all of my stupid questions since I don't know much biology beyond what we did in high school. But as for how the bacteria might be able to be detected by chemicals, he said that he'd conducted an experiment that I really had to come to England in person and see that would help me get it more.

I told him it would have to wait until the New Year or after, because one, I'm really busy, but also two, because I want to understand the stuff he's talking about before I go see him! Gaaaaakkkuuun, can you translate some chemistry into japanese for me? Or English too! That works! I don't get much of his technical explanations. Maybe I shouldn't have morphed into physics mumbo-jumbo when he asked for an explanation of what I was thinking about doing....

He also said that I should set up a bacteria culture myself to understand it better, but that's not ever going to happen. For one, Marui-kun works with food, so not at home, because that's asking for something to go wrong. And work is so messy, that it might accidentally get lost or opened, which is worse. I can just look at the Bio department's stuff, I think.

But I really hope that I can get this project working. I really want to make an invention that can really make a difference instead of just increasing convenience of life.

-Jirou

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