Being the responsible little (well, not-so-little) lab employee that I am, I planned yesterday what I wanted to get finished today at work, and I made the culture media necessary so I would have it today. When prepared, two of those types of (liquid) media look almost exactly the same, and are stored in glass bottles with the same color lid. So, I always store them in separate areas of a cabinet, and label one bottle of one group with a "L", so I know that that group is letheen broth and not trypic soy broth.

This evening, I discover that someone has decided it would be a good idea to use the one labeled "L" and then to mix the two groups of bottles together, because surely someone wouldn't have separated them on purpose! What a wild-haired, outrageous idea that would have been.

Ugh. Now I have to try to tell them apart, because I need one group for what I'm doing today, and if I use the wrong one, I'll have to repeat it tomorrow because it won't work.

On a happier note, I think I've finally killed the evil Adtomi adware that kept resurrecting itself. If it's still dead after a couple of restarts, I'll tell y'all how I did it, and then you can laud my brillance. Ha.

Speaking of brilliance, that situation up there is the opposite of it. Sheesh. I just had to go off the clock for a minute and complain to someone!

ETA - uh, why are all of my Google ads about "not-cold, not-frumpy not-husbands" a.k.a. "hot sexy wives" all of a sudden? *tap tap tap* Is this thing on? Google, paging Google. Your AdSense network is being spammed. AdSense is spammed. I'll replace the code when it's fixed. Geez, people are dropping the ball all over the place today!

EATA - Hm. I had to put the code back so Google could see it, and now the ads seem to be whistling, looking around and innocently twiddling their thumbs. Maybe it's just intermittent spam, or maybe I'm just crazy. But I just may be the lunatic you're looking for - words to live by, indeed.

One more edit - I think the person who took some of my media and then jumbled up the rest was a student who has been working on a research project in our lab, and since I've made eight hundred quadrillion stupid mistakes myself, I was probably a wee bit harsh. But still, it was annoying to suddenly have my two types of broth desegregated, you know? I only make my own media because if I use any of the media made for the lab's general use, then the guy whose job it is to prepare the media wigs out and leaves a Post-It on the remainder of the media I used. I discover it the following day, and it always says something really friendly, like, "For [insert test method name here] use ONLY!!!!!!!!!!!" It might as well say, "Keep your grubby paws off, Kimberly!!!!!" Doesn't that just encourage employee comraderie? It makes me feel so welcome at this establishment - especially since I use the media for lab testing, not for my own personal research or for the development of bioweapons or something. So, because I hate conflict, I just make my own stuff and store it separately from all the rest. Besides, then I know that it was made correctly, and it also saves Post-Its.