Careless gimp
...and I use the term advisedly. This week has been so far one of little accidents!
No, not the newborn-puppy-on-the-carpet kind of accidents, I have been house-trained at great effort, but rather the smashing glassware kind of accident. The week that messages are sent work-wide about getting people to be more careful with their equipment, Jon-ster goes and makes a tit of himself again. Casulties; one adaptor, a sinter funnel and a hair-fine capillary. The last is the most interesting. Capilliaries are notoriously fragile and almost invisible things, which I break incredibly regularly and lose often as they are so hard to see once you've dropped them. But yesterday I managed to stab my hand down onto the end of one of these things, which proceeded to do its syringe impression and imbed itself into my hand. Delightful. With the capillary action and the spurting blood and the feeling of idiocy. Never mind. No harm done, no embedded glass, no contamination. Thumbs up all round.
Lots of discussions going on at work over the big lab shift around, will be an interesting day cleaning and arguing. Will be nice to get things clean again though, our last big clean-up was back in April or sometime, so it's good. And I'm going to randomly throw in to the arena (hello, labmates!) that we instigate a monthly lab clean-up where all the hoods get swept and cleaned and benches wiped down and clutter cleared away. Every month, on the 20th, since we're doing it around that day now. Comments? There's a nice little link down below for you to click (:-), or you know where I'm living......
Last night some guy came to look at house, seemed quite friendly and genuinely interested, and was looking for somewhere quite soon, so I may have a housemate (and split bills, wooo) very soon! Life just doesnt get more exciting.
I'm off now for a bike ride while the weather is good and it's still light, so maybe I'll blog later about my ride.....or some other random shite......
No, not the newborn-puppy-on-the-carpet kind of accidents, I have been house-trained at great effort, but rather the smashing glassware kind of accident. The week that messages are sent work-wide about getting people to be more careful with their equipment, Jon-ster goes and makes a tit of himself again. Casulties; one adaptor, a sinter funnel and a hair-fine capillary. The last is the most interesting. Capilliaries are notoriously fragile and almost invisible things, which I break incredibly regularly and lose often as they are so hard to see once you've dropped them. But yesterday I managed to stab my hand down onto the end of one of these things, which proceeded to do its syringe impression and imbed itself into my hand. Delightful. With the capillary action and the spurting blood and the feeling of idiocy. Never mind. No harm done, no embedded glass, no contamination. Thumbs up all round.
Lots of discussions going on at work over the big lab shift around, will be an interesting day cleaning and arguing. Will be nice to get things clean again though, our last big clean-up was back in April or sometime, so it's good. And I'm going to randomly throw in to the arena (hello, labmates!) that we instigate a monthly lab clean-up where all the hoods get swept and cleaned and benches wiped down and clutter cleared away. Every month, on the 20th, since we're doing it around that day now. Comments? There's a nice little link down below for you to click (:-), or you know where I'm living......
Last night some guy came to look at house, seemed quite friendly and genuinely interested, and was looking for somewhere quite soon, so I may have a housemate (and split bills, wooo) very soon! Life just doesnt get more exciting.
I'm off now for a bike ride while the weather is good and it's still light, so maybe I'll blog later about my ride.....or some other random shite......
posted by J at 6:06 PM
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