I have to take the GRE on Monday so I’m trying to work in some study time before then. I don’t think it’s going to happen until Pat goes back to school though. I’ll survive. Study usually makes me do worse on tests anyway.
So at work today I broke a funnel thing and a vacuum flask thing. Not cause I’m klutzy, but because I’m dumb. I was trying to carry 26 pieces of glassware at once. 24 is a cinch, but 26 apparently is retarded. Just so you know. We did another set of plate extractions, as usual. I also photo copied some data, which was neat. I’ve never really used a copy machine, not a big fancy one at least. I also did some data entry and some special clean up stuff. The special clean up stuff kinda sucks. We’re testing for a different pesticide from before, so we’re using different standards, so we made new standards, which means we don’t need the old standards. Isn’t that a nice sentence? So anyway, that means I have to empty, acetone, wash, and then acetone about 70 little vials. Oh, after I remove their labels. I got to the wash step today. I’ll finish the rest up tomorrow morning before we get started doing other stuff probably.
When I got home from work Adam and Pat were already here. Adam was a bit of a surprise. He’s been in Utah forever and I didn’t really think he’d make it back before the end of summer. They were playing Double Dash so I made fun of their n00bness and stuff. Then Aaron and Donny showed up. Aaron and Donny and I went to Hastings to look at the awesome Used D&D book selection while Pat and Adam went to get Adam’s bike from his house, for the bike adventure, to be discussed in the next paragraph. At Hastings, we discovered by reading, it’s one of the things we do, that used books were all on sale at 3 for $10. We carefully asked a salesperson if this included D&D books, and then bought all the used books they had, almost. We didn’t buy duplicates. It was sweet. So now Aaron has 6 D&D books, which he says he’ll probably give to me soon, which is nice.
After the purchasing we went to Pat’s house. I ate some pizza and then Pat and Adam and I ditched Aaron and Donny and went on a mountain biking adventure. We drove to the freeway that’s sorta by our houses and biked around on these little paths in the fields between the freeway and Canyon Lakes. They were pretty fun. The beginning we went uphill, which was tiring, but it worked out I think. We did a little loop, and then found a paved road. We took that up higher so for the last 20 minutes or so of the ride it was almost all downhill. Refreshing. The paths were very narrow. I had trouble staying on them sometimes, and had a fight with a sagebrush about whether my handlebar could go where I thought it should at one point. The sagebrush one. Just barely though. The paths also had really deep sand/dust in places that made peddling very difficult and fish-tailing happen. It was very exciting.
Now I am home and plan to sleep soon. Aaron and Donny went to see Scanner Darkly I believe. 28000 words isn’t that much. I could do it. 😛 See Donny’s blog for information on why I would say such a thing.