Friday night was "like a Hogmanay shift", he observes, noting on his train into Glasgow that one man had downed a bottle of white wine by 10.30am.
On my return to my New York home that had appreciated in value by $145 in my absence, Gerald began to send me weekly instalments from his meticulously observed notes.
"Right now, in the short term, the situation is very weird," he observed, noting that individuals and businesses prefer to use extra cash to pay down debt rather than to spend.
"It's super interesting to see how empty the room is," he observed, noting that taxpayers are on the hook for the sparsely-attended proceedings.
"It's paper clipped!" Allen observed, noting that Geithner's copy of the Constitution was clipped so that it would open directly to the passage in question.
With a direct-sales approach, Condé Nast sells out of its video inventory "and more," Marcus observes, noting that the company has first sales right with almost all of its syndication partners.
"The randomized controlled trial trumped meta-analysis," Home observed, noting that a recent meta-analysis reporting increased rates of malignancy with angiotensin receptor blockers similarly should be considered highly speculative.
The fieldworkers also wrote qualitative descriptions of the activities they observed, noting the manner in which they were implemented, any problems in delivery, and any changes to the planned order of execution.
When observing paramedics, notes will be made during and after the observation.
