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lessons learned
Jun. 9th, 2006 04:57 pm1. michelle is awesome. and very knowledgeable. and dug through her old lab notebooks from four years ago to help me find what settings i need to do my experiments in the furnace. and then told me how to do said experiments since no one is around, and i have done this exactly once. two years ago.
2. if you push the run button on the furnace temperature controls, it kills it. you can no longer move the temperature up or down. so it's still at 1132°C and i need 1200°C. dammit.
3. kurt came back from wherever he was and showed me that if you push the up and down arrows on the furnace controls together, it takes it off of run. whew.
4. photoshopping to add background onto my passport photo took way longer than i anticipated so i didn't get to go to the post office today (oh, darn). i believe i have physical therapy on monday so i'll go afterward before i head back to the lab.
5. it gets bloody hot in the desert in the summer and i don't like walking in it. i seem to have forgotten this from last year. and it's not even july yet. ugh.
6. some people do not know woolly mammoths are extinct. this makes me sad. i weep for the future.
7. i can now make little platinum caps for my platinum capsules. involves banging with a hammer. fun!
8. i drag ass if i don't have a diet coke. which i haven't yet today. so i'm going to now. aaahhhhh...
9. this is quite possibly the cutest cat ever. though kepler's done something similar, he definitely did not stay interested for this long. i think this cat has an abnormally long attention span. but so cute. holy crap, the cat has a myspace page. i'm more than slightly disturbed by this.
10. sitting and waiting for things to cook for an hour each gets boring. another 30 minutes before i can take the mid-ocean ridge basalt that is cooking and iron-saturating the crucible out and put in batch 1 of my starting material. i think then i may venture outside and walk out to my car. go get another diet coke or 4 and park my car by my lab since it'll be after 7 and i won't get towed. i now have a plan. woo.
2. if you push the run button on the furnace temperature controls, it kills it. you can no longer move the temperature up or down. so it's still at 1132°C and i need 1200°C. dammit.
3. kurt came back from wherever he was and showed me that if you push the up and down arrows on the furnace controls together, it takes it off of run. whew.
4. photoshopping to add background onto my passport photo took way longer than i anticipated so i didn't get to go to the post office today (oh, darn). i believe i have physical therapy on monday so i'll go afterward before i head back to the lab.
5. it gets bloody hot in the desert in the summer and i don't like walking in it. i seem to have forgotten this from last year. and it's not even july yet. ugh.
6. some people do not know woolly mammoths are extinct. this makes me sad. i weep for the future.
7. i can now make little platinum caps for my platinum capsules. involves banging with a hammer. fun!
8. i drag ass if i don't have a diet coke. which i haven't yet today. so i'm going to now. aaahhhhh...
9. this is quite possibly the cutest cat ever. though kepler's done something similar, he definitely did not stay interested for this long. i think this cat has an abnormally long attention span. but so cute. holy crap, the cat has a myspace page. i'm more than slightly disturbed by this.
10. sitting and waiting for things to cook for an hour each gets boring. another 30 minutes before i can take the mid-ocean ridge basalt that is cooking and iron-saturating the crucible out and put in batch 1 of my starting material. i think then i may venture outside and walk out to my car. go get another diet coke or 4 and park my car by my lab since it'll be after 7 and i won't get towed. i now have a plan. woo.
