Diary of a Mad Scientist

To add insult to injury, not only was my Friday-afternoon-before-my-class flight delayed, but they (Northwest Airlines) lost my luggage.

My class teaching props were all in the lost luggage (sorry, the new TSA War On Liquids wouldn’t let me take a vial of pHlip test in my carry-on… just kidding).

I got to St Louis on Saturday morning and got to spend a frantic hour in Wal-Mart, re-assembling everything that didn’t make it to Missouri with me, and we started class on time anyway.

Luckily I had just ordered some new credit-card-sized scales from B100supply, and had him ship the scales to St Louis for the class, so I didn’t get stuck without a scale!

Other than scales, I was able to find everything else at Wal-Mart/Lowes, and, also very fortunately, I had previously asked Maud to loan me some of the non-walmart items (like graduated cylinders) that I normally bring. Even more luckily, we’d asked the students to bring their own safety glasses, which I normally provide myself, and which I couldn’t have easily found that many pairs of at the hardware store.

I’ve taught some other classes in the past where we would have been screwed if all this stuff didnt’ arrive.