Grumpy at myself

I completely forgot a step in a protocol I was conducting today, which made the experiment useless. Stupid brain!!!

Just going home and grump to myself.

Data

When I spend an entire day compiling data I sure as hell expect it to turn out the way I expect or opposite of what I expect. Either of these outcomes would be of interest. Why I do not expect is something that makes no sense what so ever. Its incredibly frustrating.

As a side note. Excel needs be more user friendly. Or at least more fast user friendly. I just want it to go as fast as I need it to go.

Le sigh. Time to start experiments over.

target and grocery shopping on sundays

Need I say more.

I think not.

Note to self: Do neither of these things on Sunday again... ever.

mercury bulbs

For the love of all that is good. If I'm bitching about the mercury bulb being funky/old and hear me asking about how long I should wait to replace it for it to cool down don't turn it back on. Are you trying to kill us all from mercury poisoning? Or just get the lab locked down for a week while it gets decontaminated?

Jackass.

grumpy travelling

1) 5 hour delay in Newark when destination is 3 hour drive from Newark. Though better than Newark currently

2) Halfway through 5 hour flight home small girl pukes on my stuff. Not a little either. Then 1 hour layover. Then 2 hour flight. Then hour commute. Club soda does not clean up puke nor the smell. Also various other issues with this leg... though they pale in comparison.

I got it karma. Think we are even for a while.

sunrise in lab

Watching the sun rise is not as beautiful as everyone says. Especially when its over cast. Watching the sun rise from my desk in lab as I chase frogs in a bucket is even less beautiful.

At least I get to compare sunrise to sunset today since I'll be here for both. Bleh

meeting organization

Just got back from a pretty large meeting. Last time I went to this meeting it sucked. I went essentially alone and had no idea what i was getting myself into. I was hoping that it wouldn't be as horrible this year since I was going with a big group of people. Much to my dismay I was pissed off about 2 hours into the 5 day event.

Normally with meetings you show up and nothing happens until about 6pm on the first day. With this meeting talks were going on almost immediately. The issue is these first day things are not organized by the meeting organizers and instead by other people. This means that when you show up to a talk 1/2 hour before it is supposed to start and catch the end of the previous talk, it is mighty surprising to find out that the talk you wanted to see was the one you just walked in on. To do this again in a different session just down the hall is even more annoying. At least they could put a sign outside the door with the updated schedule so you can update your itinerary.

The rest of the meeting was fun and not so infuriating (for the most part).