Well QV you just put in some admiring and happy thoughts for the PR whenever you treat her like that, at least send her a big smile from me, because reading that just put so wide a grin on my face that I had to pick my rollup off my lap after it dropped from between my lips, before it burnt me or my clothing.
Thats well nice of them to make a special cheesecake for her. I love those, although chocolate isn't my favourite, nor strawberry. I love the ones with the layer of gooey lemon/lime on top, preferably lime.Strangely I've never seen a lemon&lime cheesecake. I particularly like ones topped with lots of little shavings of lime zest. Those are delish.
Hearing they did that for her specially (and so they should:)) just made me grin my 2.5th big grin of the day. The first being my wakeup dose of morphia, the second waking up from my nodding out, stretched head to foot flat out on the sofa using cushions for a pillow, with a shirt over my head to stop the lights bothering me or waking me up, and once I awoke from my pleasant little vacation to the home of one certain god by the name of Mr. Morpheus, finding a parcel had been received by my old man for me, and slitting the packing tape like a sociopathic kid at xmas who'd waited by the chimney with a swiss army knife, coveting all the gifts on santa's pimped out set of whee...err...hooves?
meaning after the roofie'd glass of brandy, santa got slain rather than on the sleigh again. Tearing that off like a kiddie at xmas was my second grin (the pleasant nod being the 0.5, in comparison to the other two. And finding the new alembic/retort in the prev. photo nestled in the equally eagerly opened sheets of bubble-wrap. Now lastly, I hear that they did that for the PR, that made me grin my last grin presumably, of the days grinning quota. To think of the smile on her face as she tucked in to that cheesecake, that QV, I will crack a beer to celebrate, its worth more than one, but I've drunk all but my last bottle, else I'd go for a crate.
And not a grin, but thankful that my new bank card, after getting ripped off and doing the chargeback for those reagents that the scammer 'store' tried to screw me over on. Next trading standards will be brought in on the pricks. But got me money back, and although I have to pay customs charges, there is something 'a'waitin' for me being held until payment. This I think must be my 40-something piece major lab glass set, not sure if its the bigger or the smaller, as I have two separate sets coming, plus a new electronic PH meter and something else, my new Dimroth condenser. Was advertised as a Graham type, but no, its a Dimroth, and if anything IMO one would pay more money for a Dimroth than a Graham condenser. They are both efficient, but especially the Dimroth type are mighty fine precision instruments for painstaking work. Perfectly usable for the likes of reflux and distillation but particularly effective for those fractional distillations and vacuum distillations that require the utmost precision and care, for separations of compounds having boiling points close to each other. Although not so fine as a spinning band column, those are very expensive, useful for separations of components having a mere few degrees between them as I understand it. I don't have a spinning band column though, not yet anyway.
