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hrjThe mad whirl that started last night with the unexpected dinner expedition continued apace. Today was my jury duty summons date. The phone message last night said to call again at lunch today, and the message at mid-day said to come in. No sooner had we gotten the preliminaries over than pretty much the entire jury waiting room (including me) got sent off for an empanelment. By the end of the day, they'd processed the first sitting (not including me), and whittled 18 down to maybe 9 or so. Tomorrow morning I get to go back and do it again.
But first, after we got released for the day from the courtroom, I dashed back to work because I had to interview a guy who works grave shift about one of my investigations. The first thing I needed his help on was to locate the duplicate "retain" samples for the batch I'm investigating. Retain samples are stored at -70 C. We pulled out an entire bin of them and froze our fingers working through them four times until we determined that not only were the retains from the day I was interested in not there, but the retains from that entire week weren't there. Now I have to track down the guy responsible for organizing the freezer and find out if they were discarded for some reason (bad) or moved elsewhere for some reason (good). Having spent an hour on sample inventory, I then had the guy walk me through the sampling process. I'd planned to get away from work by 7pm at the latest, but finally got un-gowned and out of production around 7:30, which meant it was a mad dash to ...
Reprising my "Dublin-Viking caps" class from A&S for the Teufelberg Wednesday night gathering. Had about half a dozen people making caps and a few others hanging out watching and listening. Just about the right number, although we had to do noise control several times, given the number of different activities going on. It was nice having other people there who could jump in on some of the philosophical and methodological blathering, so my voice was less likely to give out before the time did.
It might be nice to end up on a jury. It's actually a reasonable convenient time at work to get pulled away for a few days.
But first, after we got released for the day from the courtroom, I dashed back to work because I had to interview a guy who works grave shift about one of my investigations. The first thing I needed his help on was to locate the duplicate "retain" samples for the batch I'm investigating. Retain samples are stored at -70 C. We pulled out an entire bin of them and froze our fingers working through them four times until we determined that not only were the retains from the day I was interested in not there, but the retains from that entire week weren't there. Now I have to track down the guy responsible for organizing the freezer and find out if they were discarded for some reason (bad) or moved elsewhere for some reason (good). Having spent an hour on sample inventory, I then had the guy walk me through the sampling process. I'd planned to get away from work by 7pm at the latest, but finally got un-gowned and out of production around 7:30, which meant it was a mad dash to ...
Reprising my "Dublin-Viking caps" class from A&S for the Teufelberg Wednesday night gathering. Had about half a dozen people making caps and a few others hanging out watching and listening. Just about the right number, although we had to do noise control several times, given the number of different activities going on. It was nice having other people there who could jump in on some of the philosophical and methodological blathering, so my voice was less likely to give out before the time did.
It might be nice to end up on a jury. It's actually a reasonable convenient time at work to get pulled away for a few days.
