Fire Alarms.
Does anyone actually like them, when there isn't a fire?.....
I really don't know how they can be tripped so often. Every week, without fail, some building on campus gets triggered and the fire brigade have to come out to check it. If it wasn't for the fact that they must on ethical grounds, they'd probably say it to be a case of boy cried wolf considering how often it happens..... I say this because last week, and today, while microtoming, the fire alarm went off and we had to evacuate ~sigh~ Annoying.
I spent way too much time infront of a microtome today. 6.5 hours to be precise. I got up early to get into uni to get some details for sending off my thesis, picked up my tomes, a heavy weight I must say, went to the post office and spent a small fortune mailing them to people here and there, then back to my office to hand it into the GSE and my supervisor a copy, and a copy into the office library.
Then off to the EMU for microtome fun..... at least I get paid. I got through 7 specimen blocks today, only taking 3 TEM grids from each, and some semi-thins onto glass slides. They are proving to be difficult because the bone sections in them are not holding up well. In some of the samples, they are ok, but in others, they just drop out. It seems that the infiltration of the resin isn't very consistent across the samples, I guess that is due to different porosity within the bone from the different areas since they are osteoarthritis samples.
Anyway, I have done enough microtoming for now, so I need to find some time to get onto the CM12 TEM to do some imaging and hopefully see something useful....... And get report writing too.
I helped out Imtiaz with his IDS paper a little today too. It's very frustrating sometimes to be in research because you can be doing the same thing for a very long time without meaningful results, and that is what he is currently going through. His experiments show no semblance of consistency or reproducibility and it is a bit of a hard go to put a paper together when you struggle to form conclusive results. I believe in the idea behind the work, but like many of his peer reviewers will say, without the experimental validation, it lacks strength in convincing the general scientific and engineering populace on what exactly is going on. Good luck.
The weather is far cooler now in the last two or so days than it has, a significant sign of winter fast approaching......
Hopefully I get paid tonight, so all of the money I have earned will get sucked into the black hole that is my credit card.
Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull comes out tomorrow, oooooooh. I wanna see! Don't know when I'll get around to seeing it though. Oh well.
Does anyone actually like them, when there isn't a fire?.....
I really don't know how they can be tripped so often. Every week, without fail, some building on campus gets triggered and the fire brigade have to come out to check it. If it wasn't for the fact that they must on ethical grounds, they'd probably say it to be a case of boy cried wolf considering how often it happens..... I say this because last week, and today, while microtoming, the fire alarm went off and we had to evacuate ~sigh~ Annoying.
I spent way too much time infront of a microtome today. 6.5 hours to be precise. I got up early to get into uni to get some details for sending off my thesis, picked up my tomes, a heavy weight I must say, went to the post office and spent a small fortune mailing them to people here and there, then back to my office to hand it into the GSE and my supervisor a copy, and a copy into the office library.
Then off to the EMU for microtome fun..... at least I get paid. I got through 7 specimen blocks today, only taking 3 TEM grids from each, and some semi-thins onto glass slides. They are proving to be difficult because the bone sections in them are not holding up well. In some of the samples, they are ok, but in others, they just drop out. It seems that the infiltration of the resin isn't very consistent across the samples, I guess that is due to different porosity within the bone from the different areas since they are osteoarthritis samples.
Anyway, I have done enough microtoming for now, so I need to find some time to get onto the CM12 TEM to do some imaging and hopefully see something useful....... And get report writing too.
I helped out Imtiaz with his IDS paper a little today too. It's very frustrating sometimes to be in research because you can be doing the same thing for a very long time without meaningful results, and that is what he is currently going through. His experiments show no semblance of consistency or reproducibility and it is a bit of a hard go to put a paper together when you struggle to form conclusive results. I believe in the idea behind the work, but like many of his peer reviewers will say, without the experimental validation, it lacks strength in convincing the general scientific and engineering populace on what exactly is going on. Good luck.
The weather is far cooler now in the last two or so days than it has, a significant sign of winter fast approaching......
Hopefully I get paid tonight, so all of the money I have earned will get sucked into the black hole that is my credit card.
Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull comes out tomorrow, oooooooh. I wanna see! Don't know when I'll get around to seeing it though. Oh well.
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