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Re: What have you bought lately?
« Reply #7350 on: November 03, 2016, 07:55:48 AM »
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Re: What have you bought lately?
« Reply #7351 on: November 03, 2016, 08:53:44 AM »
3 Geoscience books! 
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Re: What have you bought lately?
« Reply #7352 on: November 03, 2016, 01:09:28 PM »
Tool boxes and combination locks for sharp objects, 1 for the kitchen, 1 for my bedroom.
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Re: What have you bought lately?
« Reply #7353 on: November 15, 2016, 09:51:52 PM »
A bottle of Amontillado!    8)

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Re: What have you bought lately?
« Reply #7354 on: November 16, 2016, 01:12:04 AM »
Bought meds and some lip balm with SPF15+ just in time for summer.
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Re: What have you bought lately?
« Reply #7355 on: November 18, 2016, 12:10:09 PM »
A set of German field telephones from the 60s at an estate sale.  The ringers both work but I haven't tried the voice connections yet but there is very little that can go wrong so they should work also :)

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Re: What have you bought lately?
« Reply #7356 on: November 18, 2016, 12:25:54 PM »
A set of German field telephones from the 60s at an estate sale.  The ringers both work but I haven't tried the voice connections yet but there is very little that can go wrong so they should work also :)



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Re: What have you bought lately?
« Reply #7357 on: November 18, 2016, 01:17:41 PM »
An  alembic, a still, of sorts, in the style of ye olde alchymists of yore. This was one of their stock in trade essentials, and I've  wanted one for ages. Also bought myself a dimroth condenser but can't take a photo of that yet since I as of yet have not received it in the mail.
They are a very efficient condenser style, having a thin internal double spiral occupying the internal space, through which the coolant passes, both coolant in- and outlet hose barbs being at the top.

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Re: What have you bought lately?
« Reply #7358 on: November 18, 2016, 02:21:48 PM »
Bought beer.
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Re: What have you bought lately?
« Reply #7359 on: November 18, 2016, 03:31:56 PM »
Pampered The PR.  Lunch at her favorite diner (They served her a specially made chocolate strawberry cheesecake slice).  Had her hair washed and styled.  Bought purple washcloths for her.  Bought sushi for her dinner.

Also bought a pre-lit 4 foot Christmas tree, a giant red bow topper and a small pannetone (sp?). 
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Re: What have you bought lately?
« Reply #7360 on: November 18, 2016, 03:59:24 PM »
My beloved cobalt blue wine glasses with sun and lunar symbols!
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Re: What have you bought lately?
« Reply #7361 on: November 18, 2016, 04:29:13 PM »
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?:D 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.
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Re: What have you bought lately?
« Reply #7362 on: November 19, 2016, 02:49:47 AM »
 awwww, you bring back memories, Parts.

After an army training around where I lived as a kid, my brother found a set of field phones. He and I used it at night, the cables going via the outside  of the house. We were 6 and 7 years old, I think.
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Re: What have you bought lately?
« Reply #7363 on: November 19, 2016, 11:04:45 AM »
  A couple of canvasses, more acrylic paint, more brushes, and two tubes of gesso.  8)
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Re: What have you bought lately?
« Reply #7364 on: November 19, 2016, 03:43:01 PM »
Bought a new leather jacket to replace an old one with a hole in it.
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