We're having construction work being done (the heating system in our house needs to be replaced), and I find that I'm all out of practice ignoring construction work sounds. That used to be much, much better in the days I was digging more, with all the construction site noise right beside you day in, day out, so you'd get used to tuning it out.

Though admittedly it's something else again when it is in the same building, as it's not only the noise, but also the vibrations and the workers going in and out the door. Which is visible from my workspace and adds to the distractions. Usually there's not much traffic down our garden path, or much noise here in the quarter, so it really helps me to appreciate even more the circumstances I can normally enjoy!

Speaking of enjoyable things - I finally got on top of my email pile again, and things feel more or less caught up, though the next deadlines, I'm sure, are already conspiring to creep up on me. While I have more of an opportunity to take care of long-overdue things, I'm quite happy to do so. And in the course of this I finally found a programme that will do the angle measurements I need for my spinning documentation in the way that I want them: several of them permanently shown in the picture, with a label with the angle beside it. And it's even possible to lock in the angle tool so I don't have to select it again for every single measurement, plus there's a list of measurements and the automatic calculation of the average. Yay!

The programme is called Digimizer, and like so many good and helpful research tools, it is completely free. (ImageJ will also measure angles and label them, but I haven't been able to trick it into keeping the first angle when doing the second one. Just now, while doing this post, I find that there's a new version of the programme, ImageJ2, as well as an offspin called Fiji - and I might check them out for other analysis purposes.)