 | 03:26 pm - Complaints
Background: I have a conference to present a poster at the second week of July, and I'm pretty desperate for data at the moment due to having issues getting equipment up and running back during April & May. I just got in a new fancy stereotax yesterday, so I could return the one I was borrowing from my collaborator's lab.
I spent the first five and a half hours of today establishing that it appears to be physically impossible to use my fancy new ultra-precise equipment in order to do my surgeries, because this equipment is big and bulky. It is literally physically impossible to use this equipment to place two electrodes in a mouse's head using their electrode holders: one of the holders alone takes up more than half of the area above the mouse's skull! Even though the other one is specially designed to jut out of the way, I still half to fit the entire other electrode and the cap where the wire plugs in below the first electrode holder--not possible! Agh! So they're shipping out their cheap crappy non-precise equipment because it's at least small enough to use. WTF?
In the half hour since then, I have whacked my head on the top of my faraday cage (twice!), stabbed myself in the finger with a pipette electrode (used!), and had my drill bit break while trying to clean it (just snapped in half!)
It's not my day. I'm going to shortly go home, eat some chips, drink some beer, and watch basketball. Hopefully this will not result in catastrophe.
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