Glass-blowing fun

Pulled a load of capillaries at work today. It's quite therapeutic, and if I do say so myself they are pretty good, nice and thin and long. Only thing is, I'm having to do it really regularly because I never seem to have spares, and the crazy thing here is that - I dont really use them much, trying to keep a good one on the go for as long as possible! Which means someone has been pinching them, grrr.......

Today has so far been very nice. It's much cooler, rained in the night, and though I personally could do with a bit more sun, everyone is much more lively and it is less horrible to be working in the lab. And with that, everyone is in a much better mood! Always more pleasant. Hope it gets nice again for the weekend though. And as for the rest, I'm doing my two oxidations and have finished my reduction, so we are most happy with the chemistry. Oh yes.

Random visit last night from ex-housemate that I didnt particularly like (as opposed to housemate that I didnt particularly ever see), come to pick up a folding chair he left behind. And so I will be getting me leccy cash after all *thumbs up*. And last night was most culinarily delightful, with gorgeous chicken-and-red-wine stew affair. I like cooking, should do it more often! Probably will now that I basically have that kitchen to myself - since less-than-fastidious housemate is a bit of a ready-meal king.....

Looking forward to this weekend, off for a random little biking weekend with friend Keith round the midlands. Should be a lot of fun, though I'm going to have to achieve an amazing feat of packing for the whole weekend into a tiny bag, since I want to wear my red stripy stuff rather than the all black (less oppressive in the heat), but that means I cant take my backpack because of the aerodynamic hump on my back! The trials and tribulations of it all........bike seems to be running OK, though I'm permanently paranoid about non-aligned wheels and concomitant slippage.

Back to some more work......