jerky

[opabinia]

Yesterday was a giant pain in my ass because there was an unsafe electrical problem in the building where I was preparing a protein densitometry assay. After lots of extremely tedious, time-sensitive work, just before I started to pipette out the 24 triplicate samples (no repeater -- just a regular Pipetman, so I can get an RSI), alarms went off and we were shooed from the building. They let us back in 20 minutes later. I walked past an open elevator, noticing as I did so that there was a puddle of water in it, and that water was pouring through its ceiling from the elevator shaft somehow. Once I was 4 floors up, heading for the 5th, the PA system said they were just kidding, it's really still unsafe, come back out please.

So my assay sat for about 1.5h before I could conduct it, which brings the accuracy of the results into question. Then after I had prepared everything a certain way, following the example of the tech that I had been instructed to imitate, the person showing me the procedure (from two rooms over, telepathically, I guess) came over to tell me that I had done it wrong, and maybe the results would be further affected, and boy, he sure hoped they hadn't locked the room where the spec was, or all my work would be a waste of time, it was getting late you know. I did the assay, got acceptably consistent results, and went home late and pissed off.

Then I was all pissed off at other people, including prescription staff people and pharmacists and people with sticks up their asses. And I was going to go to ManRay, and on my way out the door anechoic reminded me that the Cruxshadows were playing. I stayed home, because I stopped liking them in the summer of 1997, after listening to Telemetry about six billion times (remember, spriggan?). I don't dislike them, really -- I'm just not un-sick of their songs yet. Oh, I DO hate that Marilyn song, though.

Today I was high-strung as all fuckoff -- and I mean twitchy and shit. I stopped on my way home for a long-overdue drug refill. There was beef jerky in the pharmacy, right near the Rx pickup line. I bought beef jerky for the first time in my life. I was hungry, it was bitterly cold and windy. Beef jerky sounded like what I should buy.

So then I bought beer too. That way I could have beef jerky and beer for dinner. I ate beef jerky while I walked across the parking lot back to the T, six-pack under my arm.

I got home and learned that ComputerBrain, Inc., are a bunch of assholes -- they sold me something they didn't have, and wouldn't I like to buy one of the ones with a 3-year warranty for an additional $35, and no we won't give you a free shipping upgrade if you choose to wait until we actually stock what we told you we already had on the shelf. This spoiled my dinner. I cancelled my order with them and bought from someone else. I think it should be legal to punch bad people in the head. They would eventually either turn good or die.

And now, beer two.