being in the lab today brought back more fond memories of welch....

we were trying to figure out how to work the new electrophoresis machine since mei needed to use the old one the whole day, eugenia and me finally got it to work by setting the voltage all the way up to 300 and then and ONLY then would the milliamps stay at 25. o_O..right. it finally worked, and then xuefeng had to use it, but it wasn't workign for him at all:

xuefeng: how does this thing work?
me: i think you have to set the voltage all the way up.
*sets voltage to 300 and milliamps to 100* *presses starts* *voltage goes back down to 100 and milliamps to 8*
me:................
xuefeng: i don't get it
heidi: what's wrong?
xuefeng: i can't get it to work!
*they stand there for a while trying to get it to work*
nat(heidi's husband): if you want, i can throw it downstairs for you
*they go and get a another machine, and it works this time*

hahaha ok so that was successfully resolved...on the other hand, if that had happened to Kory at UT-Arlington this summer at Welch, this was what you would have heard, all the way down the hall:

"#$&*!! stupid machine!! piece of $&%*...*indistinguishable mutters*...%$*%**&($*!!!...*sound of something breaking*"


LOL....big difference