Monday, November 17, 2008

Sundry irritations

Idiots who don't pay attention when driving. I had a minor bumper bashing on Friday - thankfully no serious damage, but it's still a bit frustrating. My chief peeve was the fact that the idiot responsible just sat in his car, as though I should just drive off without checking for damage.

Lawyers responsible for our patent who managed to submit it with completely the wrong set of figures. I spent hours last week fixing them all, and now the majority of our figure legends don't match the figures.

The water quality at work. This has been a continual problem for several months now, and still doesn't seem to be anywhere near getting resolved. Of course, this affects the water that we drink during the day, and the purified water we use in all our cultures and chemical solutions. Sigh.

Facebook chat. Why, oh why, oh why doesn't it indicate that you have a new chat message when you're working in a different tab? Would this be so difficult to sort out?

My complete inability to get a simple cloning strategy to work.

Sigh. Next year can not come soon enough.

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