It happens to be a very ungodly hour of the morning and not only am I still awake, but I'm still at work. The last few days have gone about as wrong as they could go, so much so that it's actually quite humorous when I think about it. And actually I'm not at all upset about it. I haven't been upset for quite a while when things go wrong. Sometimes you just have to roll with the way your life is going. For instance, just yesterday (meaning Friday) we experienced an unexplainable instrumentation problem where the screen froze and so therefore I couldn't silence the loud beeping the instrument was emitting (I did however find out how to make it louder). So I made a sign that consisted of an unhappy facial expression with a thermometer in its mouth and a word bubble above it that basically told people to deal with it. I couldn't stop the beeping without aborting my run, so it ended up beeping for about an hour. After we finally got that one restarted, another error occured, which turned out to be my own stupidity, but we didn't run it again till the next day after I called the guys from bioengineering. I brought up our second instrument and everything went fine till it didn't. Some problem with the development pipette, which still isn't working and won't till after Monday since they couldn't figure out what was wrong with it. So we're down to one instrument, and we have about 3 days worth of samples.
So I had a lot of sample issues to deal with, plus I decided to run samples earlier than I normally would to ensure we get a head start on the problems that are suddenly present. And so after many hours of getting all the messes that were created this week out of the way, I'm finally restarting up our sole working instrument after a half hour rest to defrag the hard drive. I basically have an hour to kill before it gets to the point where I can actually start it up. Hence I'm here writing in my blog. I think I'll probably do some pipette calibrations while I wait. I figure I'll be here till at least 8 am, then I'll go home and take a nap till the noon fifteen pot luck, then I'll go back home and sleep some more. I have a ton of overtime as of late.
Other things that have gone wrong are that some hose or another in my car is leaking. If I don't refill the coolant area of my engine with water daily, my car refuses to go faster than 25 mph and shakes like a bandit. I have to drive down to my parents Monday, which means I'll be stuck there a while. Of course I have somewhere in SL to be on Tuesday, and I work the Wednesday overtime shift. I hope it's a quickly solved problem. Also, it was too windy to go skydiving today--which I guess was good considering it allowed me to get a jump start on work junk. We rescheduled for Monday. I can't remember what all else went wrong, because I'm kind of sluggish right now, but more certainly did. Storage is still down, so I can't get a hold of my samples, but I AM the sole member present in my department, so I get to listen to music loudly.
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I didn't know that bandits are known for shaking.
From the phrase "make out like bandits" I always assumed they were known for making out.
I think it was a weekend for things going wrong...one of the greatest character traits one can obtain is the ability to laugh it off and keep going anyway. You are fabulous, friend!
Did I mention bandits?
I, too, thought bandits were good at making out. Tickled Pink corrected me, as she often does. I also didn't know what playing hooky meant (I assumed it was another thing bandits like to do) and need I bring up the red planet thing?
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