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Grex > Agora46 > #8: I'm Bummed, I'm Bummed, I'm really really Bummed | |
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tod
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response 364 of 594:
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Aug 6 23:11 UTC 2003 |
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lynne
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response 365 of 594:
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Aug 7 00:01 UTC 2003 |
Hah. You will *all* be sorry when I invent a cure for cancer and refuse to
divulge it to people I don't like.
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tod
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response 366 of 594:
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Aug 7 00:03 UTC 2003 |
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keesan
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response 367 of 594:
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Aug 7 00:15 UTC 2003 |
Re 356 etc - good luck with the surgery and I hope you feel better afterwards.
You must be under a lot of stress just from that.
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tpryan
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response 368 of 594:
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Aug 7 00:39 UTC 2003 |
re: 337:
Can you move a lab bench to cover the spot on the floor.
Good freinds help you move. Better freinds help you move heavy
lab benches.
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lynne
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response 369 of 594:
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Aug 7 00:56 UTC 2003 |
In this case, lab benches that are implanted in the cement. Don't think
that's an option, but thanks for the suggestion.
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other
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response 370 of 594:
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Aug 7 00:58 UTC 2003 |
If you have really, REALLY good friends, they'll lay there and hide the
spot with their bodies.
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bru
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response 371 of 594:
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Aug 7 01:31 UTC 2003 |
I did not mean the work on the border was stressful. I meant stress tests
tend to set off some of our detectors and requiring further inspection.
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jiffer
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response 372 of 594:
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Aug 7 01:40 UTC 2003 |
Great friends would poor another substance over it to react with the floor
"stuff" and see what other colours can be achieved... thus making another
excuse to finish your dissertation up that much faster.. or slower...
depending on your head honcho.
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jep
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response 373 of 594:
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Aug 7 01:52 UTC 2003 |
I'm still at work, trying to solve a problem for someone. Pretty soon
he's going to accept we're not getting an answer tonight; I'm about out
of brain cells. And then I've got to drive home tonight. Sigh.
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other
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response 374 of 594:
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Aug 7 02:53 UTC 2003 |
My health insurance premium just went up 17.4% and is now over $200 per
month out of pocket, and this just after they cut the extent of their
prescription coverage.
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tod
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response 375 of 594:
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Aug 7 04:12 UTC 2003 |
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janc
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response 376 of 594:
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Aug 7 04:58 UTC 2003 |
IIRC stress tests involve an injection that causes the patient's heart rate
to elevate. A doppler ultrasound is used to observe the flow of blood through
the heart. Not a terribly nice procedure, but not one with obvious symptoms.
(I may be conflating a couple different cardiovascular tests here.) No idea
why it would set off the bordor guard.
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edina
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response 377 of 594:
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Aug 7 14:04 UTC 2003 |
Re 376 That's exactly right. I was hooked up to an IV and EKG ad then shot
up with adrenaline - it's quick, but I felt kinda crappy for the rest of the
day.
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edina
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response 378 of 594:
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Aug 7 14:14 UTC 2003 |
Oh, and thank you Sindi. Yeah, the stress is kinda wearing on me.
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lynne
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response 379 of 594:
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Aug 7 16:32 UTC 2003 |
Oh, we've been having a great time trying out different things to try to
take the stuff out of the floor. Nitric acid, sodium hydroxide, hydrogen
peroxide, combinations of the above with acetone to carry it into the
very hydrophobic floor, soap, dichloromethane, potassium permanganate...
Amazingly, we haven't been able to even mark the floor except with organic
stuff. As I believe I already mentioned, we literally scrubbed the floor
off--which was the only way to get rid of the color. next up: leaving a
uv-vis lamp on it overnight to see if we can induce photodecomposition.
I'm guessing that the fluorescence will fade but the bright yellow color
will remain.
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anderyn
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response 380 of 594:
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Aug 7 16:49 UTC 2003 |
Some stress tests involve some other stuff injected besides adrenaline, I
think. I know that the one test I had done for my thyroid would have set off
the detectors. (Twila's radioactive! Grin.)
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edina
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response 381 of 594:
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Aug 7 17:25 UTC 2003 |
Oh - I had the radioactive stuff too. It was funny - the doctor asked me 5
times if I was pregnant. I finally said, there would have to be a star rising
in the east and he said, "Miracles do happen".
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tod
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response 382 of 594:
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Aug 7 18:02 UTC 2003 |
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dcat
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response 383 of 594:
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Aug 7 18:41 UTC 2003 |
A former girlfriend had a thyroid disease (hyp(o|er)thyroidism, i don't recall
which), but I don't remember if she'd had the radioactive stuff. . . .
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keesan
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response 384 of 594:
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Aug 7 21:05 UTC 2003 |
Eric, re health insurance, 17% a year increase is normal. My previous policy
doubled in cost in two years. I am paying $100/month and I am probably 20
years older than you, American Community Mutual, very high deductible but it
covers drugs and preventive care and accidents with no deductible. If you
pay for a whole year just before your birthday you get the prebirthday rate.
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rcurl
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response 385 of 594:
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Aug 7 22:24 UTC 2003 |
You'll get a very brown floor with KMnO4. Try regular old sodium hypochlorite.
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russ
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response 386 of 594:
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Aug 7 22:33 UTC 2003 |
Man, Lynne... things must really be bad for you. My sympathies.
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lynne
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response 387 of 594:
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Aug 8 00:26 UTC 2003 |
386: Er, thanks. Not quite sure what prompted that--the floor doesn't
matter *that* much to me.
385: Bleach was one of the first things we tried. No dice. Amusingly
enough, one of my labmates suggested toothpaste--haven't tried *that* yet. :)
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anderyn
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response 388 of 594:
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Aug 8 01:58 UTC 2003 |
If you do have the radioactive stuff, you do set off the detectors at the
border for a while. Don't know how long, but Bruce said that people often do
set off the detectors, and it's that -- some folks bring in notes from their
doctors.
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