Training Log Archive: Becks

Bout 4 - the heat won in a very conniving fashion. I was getting ready to go to bed at 9.30 last night, absolutely shattered, when we get e mailed that the lab -80 freezer is malfunctioning. Of course, the only person with a car who hasn't had three beers? So Rob and I were in the lab until almost midnight, trying to decide whether it was going to stabilise or whether we would have to move everything (disaster as the only spare freezer is currently a drive away). We spent time on the phone to the engineer and his advice was to fill it with dry ice, but of course it's already full of samples, so that was entirely unhelpful. Eventually we left it but with a big note to call me if anyone saw it above -20. I finally got to bed at 1. Today I am shattered, but have many things to do before we fly to Seattle this evening. Pah. Heat. You are sneaky beyond words.