Other Bacterial Nightmares

I found out today that sometime over the last week someone who has been in the lab turned my incubator up to the highest temperature it would go, frying all the microbes and destroying valuable agar. I don't think I need to say I'm upset, but I am going to anyway. The test tube racks inside were so hot I practically burned myself. The huge plates I had the students prepare last week for their antibiograms were dry, I'm just glad I kept my stocks in the refrigerator... I don't know whether to look to the guys who are working on the plumbing in the lab room, though I think I scared them away from touching any of the lab equipment by telling them which bacteria we were working with, or one of the chemistry labs where Dr. Moore has students in there twice a week, some of which are high schoolers.

Blixi has got cabin fever. It seems like it has been raining here for 2 weeks. I took her out for a walk in the rain last weekend, but otherwise days have been few and far between that she has been outdoors. She chewed up a CD today and got into a bunch of other things that she really shouldn't have access to. She chewed my printer cable yesterday too... thank goodness I haven't been using it.

John replaced a bunch of electronic equipment that got fried by a lightning strike last week today. He's currently hooking it up, so we'll have wireless internet again. We've been having to directly wire to the modem because our router went out, along with our home phone, answering machine, the power supply on John's computer, and the other printer. We also got some pretty kickin' surge protectors to go with the new stuff. John also found out today that other buildings up and down the street had electronic problems as well.

I am planning to go to St Cloud to do a little shopping with Michal this weekend. May stop at the cabin on the way up. Gotta go to bed, I'm bushed and I have to leave for class tomorrow at 7am so that I can set up the lab exam for my micro students. Blargh.