What have you done today? (Pt 2)

["couldbecousin"]

Took The PR bowling.  SHE SCORED A TURKEY (3 strikes in a row.)
Pretty much it.

  That's at least her second turkey, right?  She's a pretty good bowler. 

[Queen Victoria]

Took The PR bowling.  SHE SCORED A TURKEY (3 strikes in a row.)
Pretty much it.

  That's at least her second turkey, right?  She's a pretty good bowler. 

At least.  She bowled with a wrist splint/support.  I'm insisting on her using it.  If anything happens to her left arm/wrist/hand, she may not be able to do ANY self-care.  I can't really protect her from normal daily activities, but I can hopefully prevent or minimize repetitive motion worries.

[Queen Victoria]

Fed The PR
cleaned around 8 paver/stepping stones with a knife and scissors (See the What did you buy thread) to remove overgrown grass
bagged the grass
Put the bagged grass, 4 pieces of sheet rock and plywood cuts out for trash pick up
Took a bath
About to put hot rub on my right hand
Felt accomplishment   

[odeon]

Worked.

[Icequeen]

Got 2 tons of dirt and did a lot of shoveling.

[Queen Victoria]

Got 2 tons of dirt and did a lot of shoveling.

Damn, girl.  Are you a superhero in real life?

[Charlotte Quin]

Nothing so far. Had some pikelets with syrup. I want to go outside and mount one side of the car up the gutter so I can check out the broken splash guard underneath but the streets are too full of cars thanks to Anzac Day and 2-Up at the pub nearby.

[odeon]

Woke up.

[renaeden]

Nothing so far. Had some pikelets with syrup. I want to go outside and mount one side of the car up the gutter so I can check out the broken splash guard underneath but the streets are too full of cars thanks to Anzac Day and 2-Up at the pub nearby.

Busy down at the foreshore here too. They had a dawn service there, which means it's packed all day.

I went to the chemist. The clothes shop next door wasn't open. I'll probably go there on Thursday.
I handed in some clothes and a quilt cover to Vinnies which was another walk.
Got home and put the bins out. Then I did the dishes.

[Icequeen]

Got 2 tons of dirt and did a lot of shoveling.

Damn, girl.  Are you a superhero in real life?

Had help this time...or I wouldn't be moving this morning I'm sure. 

[Lestat]

Repaired a gas generator. Threw a flaming hairdrier, did a rather nice looking job on a recrystallization of one of my projects that I am rather proud of, even if I do say so myself; I am pleased with myself for a job well done after spending perhaps three days and nights on it, meticulously extracting into various solvents, washing with H2O, saturated brine, saturated sodium carbonate, recrystallizing from alcohol and from dichloromethane, taking my project from a dingy grey-claret sludge to fine yellow vitreous flaky crystals of almost completely uniform color throughout the lot.

Next thing to do is to do a quick analysis using paper chromatography and developing with iodine vapor.

(it is supposed to be yellow, that doesn't indicate something is wrong, I just want to see how a chromatogram runs in something like ethanol/ethyl acetate/acetone/ether mixture. And one using pentane/CH2Cl2 or perhaps chloroform/pentane. I'd sooner use the methylene chloride though since I'd have to make the chloroform, since I've run out, distill it etc. to a truly meticulous level of purity for use as an chromatographic eluant solvent.  Not quite decided what to do yet. Think I'll run a highly polar solvent system first then go to inspect the nonpolar fractions and make certain comparisons with certain other things.

I've...also had breakfast (rice krispies, in a bowl of mixed snickers bar and mars bar caramel milkshakes..was absolutely delish, those milkshakes, especially the snickers bar ones work perfectly for jazzing up rice krispies cereal.)



Also been eating these blue bubblegum sour belts, and bubblegum ovoid thingies. Not sure what they are meant to be, but its bubblegum, its candy, its blue and they taste really damn good so I'm quite satisfied with them just being sour blue ovoid thingies

Going to go for a rollup then get the face shield and elbow-length gloves back on, and get back stuck in to my o-chem analyses.

No rest for the wicked, if its any longer a period of rest than it takes for a tailor-made to burn down (or a hairdrier, as the case may be )

[Lestat]

I'd expect nothing less from the royal cutie nicely done on her part.

Me...went into house, to see mail had arrived for me. Made rollup, lit rollup, about to go out.

["couldbecousin"]

  Took out my trash and recycling, medicated myself, geared up mentally for a good day. 

[Lestat]

Just got myself a new soxlet and condenser for it, a dreschel (gas drying) bottle, couple of drying tube adapters, a 100xpack of capillary melting point determination tubes and a few lengths of fused quartz tubing plus a new pressure-equalized addition funnel (has a sidearm, so that it can be purged with inert gas, and still drop into a flask whilst closed to the exterior environment)  for my lab. Only had separatory funnels until now and couldn't do the isolated additions like that.

Can't wait. Cost just under £90 the lot. Soxhlet and condenser for it came as a matched set too

[Queen Victoria]

Just got myself a new soxlet and condenser for it, a dreschel (gas drying) bottle, couple of drying tube adapters, a 100xpack of capillary melting point determination tubes and a few lengths of fused quartz tubing plus a new pressure-equalized addition funnel (has a sidearm, so that it can be purged with inert gas, and still drop into a flask whilst closed to the exterior environment)  for my lab. Only had separatory funnels until now and couldn't do the isolated additions like that.

Can't wait. Cost just under £90 the lot. Soxhlet and condenser for it came as a matched set too