Fairly ordinary day today.
Woke up, went to uni, did some resin changing for the clay samples.
I did however learn how to mix Spurr's Resin from a recipe card. It is consisted of four ingredients with very long names so that they end up as abbreviated letters, and in various amounts that kind of need to be accurate. If you change their ratio's then it changes the hardness of the resin, the viscosity properties, and the shrinkage of the resin upon curing, which is a problem if you get the resin to be too hard and too much shrinkage since it will distort/cause artifacts in the sample you have embedded.
Bummed around some, hunted for jobs and found a Japanese company that produces and does research on Spray Drying called Okawara Kakohki Co. Ltd. They looked pretty interesting, and their website English was pretty decent, so I sent off an email with a cover letter and my resume enquiring if they would be interested in hiring me. I also looked at some other job descriptions through Monster.com which were interesting, but I will hold off on applying to the USA for the moment still.
I got home and booked some flights to Brisbane, for myself to go to the engagement party of one of my school friends. It's on the 5th July at his house, so I hope the weather shines on through. I've been looking forward to it because it is kind of like a holiday for me to go up and see my school friends and I generally try to see them once a year if I can. If I am working overseas next year, I will miss their wedding in April, so I hope that at least I can be there for their official engagement party. My next problem though is to actually find accommodation for the weekend. I'm flying up early on the Friday afternoon because the later flights are all booked out it would seem, and coming back also early Sunday afternoon because I don't know what work I may or may not have to do on the Monday. At least the flight was cheap because I had credit from my flights to Morwell this year that I cancelled.
To talk about something in the news, there recently was some nutcase in Japan, who apparently was "tired of living" and drove a truck to Akihabara (the very famous electronics district) and proceeded to crash the truck into people, pull out a knife and start stabbing people. When he was finally stopped, he had stabbed seventeen people, and seven of them died. This guy was only 25. The news picture of him didn't look like he was 25 but someone older, but fairly normal looking..... It just makes you wonder sometimes what happens to people that they end up snapping like that. This is of course different to people who are "tired of living" and commit suicide. With that, at least they are not killing other people, even if they do still bring a lot of pain and suffering to their families and friends.... compared with people who go on killing sprees that end up spreading this suffering to a wide scale. Why?.... so senseless. Perhaps if people could take their time each day to say hi to someone, smile at someone, help someone, these kinds of things wouldn't happen so much. The reason why I brought this up was because I saw someone today that I knew. I waved and said hi to them, but they ignored me and just kept walking. I know they saw me, and I'm fairly certain (99%) that they recognised me, but they just kept going. I was a little hurt at that, but I guess that is their choice to behave in a manner like that. Thankfully, I'm not on the verge of being a psychotic killer, but even something as simple as that could trigger someone to snap methinks...... It's always the little things in life sometimes.
Woke up, went to uni, did some resin changing for the clay samples.
I did however learn how to mix Spurr's Resin from a recipe card. It is consisted of four ingredients with very long names so that they end up as abbreviated letters, and in various amounts that kind of need to be accurate. If you change their ratio's then it changes the hardness of the resin, the viscosity properties, and the shrinkage of the resin upon curing, which is a problem if you get the resin to be too hard and too much shrinkage since it will distort/cause artifacts in the sample you have embedded.
Bummed around some, hunted for jobs and found a Japanese company that produces and does research on Spray Drying called Okawara Kakohki Co. Ltd. They looked pretty interesting, and their website English was pretty decent, so I sent off an email with a cover letter and my resume enquiring if they would be interested in hiring me. I also looked at some other job descriptions through Monster.com which were interesting, but I will hold off on applying to the USA for the moment still.
I got home and booked some flights to Brisbane, for myself to go to the engagement party of one of my school friends. It's on the 5th July at his house, so I hope the weather shines on through. I've been looking forward to it because it is kind of like a holiday for me to go up and see my school friends and I generally try to see them once a year if I can. If I am working overseas next year, I will miss their wedding in April, so I hope that at least I can be there for their official engagement party. My next problem though is to actually find accommodation for the weekend. I'm flying up early on the Friday afternoon because the later flights are all booked out it would seem, and coming back also early Sunday afternoon because I don't know what work I may or may not have to do on the Monday. At least the flight was cheap because I had credit from my flights to Morwell this year that I cancelled.
To talk about something in the news, there recently was some nutcase in Japan, who apparently was "tired of living" and drove a truck to Akihabara (the very famous electronics district) and proceeded to crash the truck into people, pull out a knife and start stabbing people. When he was finally stopped, he had stabbed seventeen people, and seven of them died. This guy was only 25. The news picture of him didn't look like he was 25 but someone older, but fairly normal looking..... It just makes you wonder sometimes what happens to people that they end up snapping like that. This is of course different to people who are "tired of living" and commit suicide. With that, at least they are not killing other people, even if they do still bring a lot of pain and suffering to their families and friends.... compared with people who go on killing sprees that end up spreading this suffering to a wide scale. Why?.... so senseless. Perhaps if people could take their time each day to say hi to someone, smile at someone, help someone, these kinds of things wouldn't happen so much. The reason why I brought this up was because I saw someone today that I knew. I waved and said hi to them, but they ignored me and just kept walking. I know they saw me, and I'm fairly certain (99%) that they recognised me, but they just kept going. I was a little hurt at that, but I guess that is their choice to behave in a manner like that. Thankfully, I'm not on the verge of being a psychotic killer, but even something as simple as that could trigger someone to snap methinks...... It's always the little things in life sometimes.
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