Very festive!

It’s always fun to embiggen one’s vocabulary

Portugal Cove Rd and Rennie's Mill Rd between Bannerman Park and First Ave is a downhill/uphill skating rink. Witnessing cars skidding going up and down, blocking traffic and nearly colliding. Easy to tell who's not on winter tires. Salt truck just came by but is now stuck in the traffic as well.

Sam McGee for sure, but also this one: “In this zoo are beasts which
like some truths, are far too true
(clawing ones, and fire-breathers and flesh-rakers like piranhas
and those that crush the bones to chalk
and those that bare their red teeth in the night)” Gwendolyn MacKewen.

All look good except for the ampule of reagent he prepared two weeks ago and was clean by NMR then. Finds the ampule contents were 50% reagent 50% toluene. Suspects coworker stole some reagent and replaced the volume with solvent like a teenager stealing dad’s liquor topping up the bottle with water

A grad school incident: coworker purifies a pesky, moisture sensitive liquid reagent used for a ligand synthesis. Stores it in an ampule. Later makes the ligand as he did many times before. Yield is crap and nmr is a disaster. Repeats. Same. Starts second guessing his technique. NMR of reagents…

We get common solvents filled from drums in stores. Students got hexanes refilled. Used some to rinse Na from oil. Noticed Na was floating and fizzing. Got it TF out of there. Density of “hexanes” seemed high. Turns out they were given dichloromethane instead. Whoops!

Battle for the Sun rounds out my top 4. Bright Lights is a great track. Surprisingly peppy for them.

My top 3: Without You I’m Nothing; Meds; Sleeping with Ghosts (deluxe 2 disc edition with their cover of running up that hill)

May you be accepted with minor revisions!

I’m currently craving a single plum, floating in perfume, served in a man’s hat, while a menacing clown lurks outside my house and a man in black suit dances to Stealers Wheel with a straight razor.

What underlies all this is an attack on critical thinking and acceptance of statements (ie the solutions manual) without verification of something that sounds wrong. I have great respect for teachers but we also have to have to humility to admit when something sounds off.

We are definitely living in the weirdest timeline

Back to back homers on the first two at bats? I’d say so!

Watched the lead bounce back and forth until I felt like I was watching a tennis match (albeit with hot chocolate and Amarula... out of Baileys). Went to bed. Woke up. New majority government.

Inspired by a childhood memory of a Looney Tunes episode

Flexible hose by the kitchen sink. Works wonders!

Also helpful is scheduling meetings for September 31