Sigma-Aldrich: bite me!

You used to be the company you went to for any reagent or chemical. You used to provide it with no trouble.

Outsourcing turned out to be the wrong answer. Because you scatter your inventory between India, China, and god only knows what other countries, I had to pay to ship a group of items FOUR times.

You take over Aldrich, then when you order an Aldrich item, you have to pay for a separate shipment.

Then you list an item as in grams. I figure it's a powder. What did I get - 25 grams of said chemical in an unknown amount of liquid. Yup, nowhere on the frickin bottle does it say it's 100 ml, 150 ml or what. I suppose I can back calculate knowing the concentration and the known quanitity. But I already wasted a half hour making sure my calculations were correct since I was expecting a powder I could measure.

For desert, I'm missing two items - one is backordered until APRIL and the other you claim it was shipped.

Assholes. You created a paperwork nightmare with all my shipping receipts. Then cross reference what I actually ordered.

This will be the last time I order basic reagents from you. I would have used Aldrich, but you now own them. I'm sure I can find a chemical supply company willing to kiss my ass for my business. You seem to be busy having your asses kissed by everyone else.

Darn it, darn it

I knew there was a reason I resisted for so long to upgrade to OSX. I held off for a long time, but eventually gave in to the power of the dark side.

Just days after announcement of a OSX virus that appears as a screenshot of OS 10.5, this appears.

Yes, my computer was vulnerable. Yes, I did the temporary fix.

Keeping up with this crap will make me into a full time computer person being paid the salary of a research technician. I should pick a career and go with it.

The longest day (24)

As much as I think it sucks to be stuck in the tissue lab for 12 hours, it's nothing like the long days poor Jack has to go through for national security.

A&E runs four hours of "24" every Monday. Yesterday was the last four episodes of season 4. I had forgotten that Walt sanctioned the Secret Service to kill Jack. Now I don't have any pity for the worm killing himself.

But now we're in season 5.

What a meddling first lady. While I like her character, and how she does what's right, she sure sticks her nose in where it doesn't belong. Does she normally butt in quiet conversations between the President of the United States and Mike Novak?

The President is such a weenie. Granted, he wasn't elected. But he's a spineless fool. Cheney sure wouldn't hem and haw about what to do in a tight situtation. I won't even go into the temper the weenie demonstrates several times. Any logical guy would not even consider sacrificing the Russian President when he's reminded if he dies on American soil the treaty is voided, and they could declare war on us.

A shame - I really wanted to like Lyn's character. Maybe it's because he's Sean Austin. But how could he have gotten so far up the CTU ladder without his temper issue being discovered before? Maybe he's just having a meltdown because he knows he'll be busted if he gets caught without his keycard. I remember hearing that Bill was asking for Lyn's keycard to verify a phone record. Shortly afterwards, Bill was in holding and Lyn was appearing unhinged.

Wasn't Audrey supposed to find Kim? Is she going to make an appearance?

And good old Jack. Kicks ass, takes names.