Tired...

[coolohoh]

Was a tiring day in the lab today.

I just lied on my bed and slacked for over an hour before i even felt up to doing anything...

On days like this I wish I had one of those small laptop tables for use in bed... then again, I have too many wires connecting to my laptop. The power cord, a USB hub that's connected to my mouse (very important!), a charger, a USB powered fan, the cooling fan (that seems to be dying and needs replacing)... and the only other USB port on my macbook is connected to an ext HD. Then there's the Ethernet cord too. Recently I've switched to using the Ethernet cable instead of wireless, just cos its so much faster. The cable is a leftover from the time we put the router in my room whereas the router had to be connected to the TV (we signed up for Internet TV service then) in the living room. Now it’s the other way round. Router in the living room, and my Ethernet cable to my lappy haha. The router location sucks. Somehow. The wall or something... there's really bad interference. In my sis's room just like... 10m away she has problems with the wifi connection. When lying on my bed I often am unable to connect to the wifi on my phone. And that's just like 10m away too!

But back to the lab. The big boss asked me to help with testing some parameters of a batch of industrial samples, and the samples came today so it was a pretty mad rush for me to finish the testing. All the results will be there (well actually I have to manually measure one set of results) tmr morning... I hope it all goes well so I don't have to repeat...? I highly suspect I might need to repeat 1 experiment though T.T

But well... learnt how to use two new equipment today. The TOC/TN analyser - which is actually my group's equipment, and the conductivity meter - which is really easy to use, just like a pH meter.

Sis is coming back from Aussie tmr. Hopefully I don't have to repeat too many experiments so that I'll be able to join my parents at the airport...

Pfttt another flight crashed today. Air Algeria did I spell that right? Sigh. What's with all the sudden problems with the flights recently? Its been quite a while since I saw so many airplane related accidents in such a short time no?

Initially wanted to do some translations tonight, but nope, I was just way too tired. Well at least I did do like 4 mins worth of video this morning... And at least next Monday is a public holiday and at least I can get some... rest?

Let's see how things go tomorrow... but I think it'll be another really busy day at the lab too. Alrights. Its only 12am but I'm freaking tired today. I shall head to bed... good night!

Comments

[n445.livejournal.com]

Hi!
I read a post the other day where you talked about the Nanodrop, qPCR, etc and I know all that machines, but now I´m curious, ...what is a TOC/TN analyzer?
And yeah! the air accidents have increased lately, but I prefer not think about that :(

[coolohoh]

Oh it’s a machine that can analyse the TOC (total organic carbon) and TN (total nitrogen) in a sample! More of chemistry than bio ;)

[n445.livejournal.com]

Oh I see! Thank you!