waiting for the hit

I have exceeded my 40 hour week and am now head down, making sure stuff I need on Monday morning 8am is done. I've also had to repeat those samples in the 44oC incubator, because when I finally went home thinking it was stable, it wasn't. 3 degrees higher meant everything died. This morning I had a low carb Monster in the hopes this would trick my body into feeling refreshed.
Guarana, Vitamin B, Taurine, Ginseng. It tastes ok if you like vitamin B - mmm berocca. So we'll see if the lights turn on.

I want to go home

But here I sit, tidying up work - and blogging - because someone decided to change the incubator from 44oC to 25oC. This is the one with a big label that says 44oC and is used multiple times each week at this temperature. I may get screamed at tomorrow but its actually my lab incubator and I'm the only one authorised to change the temperature.
So, it took me till 6pm to finish setting up samples (2.5 hours of work) & then I discovered the incubators been altered. Now I have to hang round till it gets back up to temp and make sure I haven't set it a degree too high - or the samples all die - its rather fiddly. I'm annoyed that I didn't think to look at it when I started. It would have been fixed by the time the samples were ready.

I took the container that was in there out. It can sit at room temperature. That's roughly what they'd changed the incubator to anyway.

I also have a cold. Did I mention I want to go home?

guilty pleasure for birthday

Ok, get your minds out of the gutters.

My nephews gave me a USB drinks fridge for my birthday. I have always wanted one, but thought it a frivolous use of energy to keep one can cold next to the computer. Now of course, I have to use it, because it was a gift. :D

frivolous purchases...because it was my birthday

As well as some less so because I needed them.

At the markets I bought;
a 15 minute massage that left me very relaxed - though I need another one now (stiffening muscles)
1/2 a cheese and oregano pizza and a big plate of honey puff balls (for dinner)
a pair of stirling silver twisty dangly earrings (which I must wear 5 times to justify my $5 rule for apparel and accessories)
two funny logo t-shirts (geek by day, superhero by night and Don't make me send my flying monkeys after you). I didn't buy the you can get to know a lot about people if you just take the time to inject them with sodium pentothol shirt.
magnetic haematite ring (I usually break them after a week of wear, but they only cost $5)
a cabochon ring with a stone who's name I can't recall right now (brown glass with flecks of copper in it - first made by people trying to create a fake gold look).
jar of pickled garlic....mmmm

I think that was it..except for the decaf cappuccino I got from Juliettes for supper.

V8 thing meant that Stockland was ok to park at today. Now having spent 2 hours at work, I'm off to do a little more shopping followed by lunch and a post-prandial nap. I may even clean the house afterwards....or play LOTRO. One of the two.

PS free play on LOTRO for lapsed players for this week I think...Dave.

Its my Birthday

Dad sent me a text this morning to wish me happy birthday...at 6:40am...after being awake at 4:30am due to a screaming argument at the house across the road. Somewhat sleepy now and drinking coffee.
I was thinking about going out for a nice dinner tonight but we have a V8 race thing on here today, so the centre of town will be nightmarish and booked out. I may still go out to the markets (at 5 so there's some slight chance of a park) and then maybe get takeaway and sit on the strand...with a million other people. Even on Wednesday night this week it was chockas.
I may leave work early. There's a research meeting at 3pm that i have to be at, but after that I'm free to skive off.