{"id":740,"date":"2012-08-16T07:36:43","date_gmt":"2012-08-16T11:36:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/?p=740"},"modified":"2012-08-16T16:23:11","modified_gmt":"2012-08-16T20:23:11","slug":"thursday-16-august-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2012\/08\/16\/thursday-16-august-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday, 16 August 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"

07:36 –<\/span> Well, of those six chemistry kits I put together yesterday afternoon, three are spoken for by overnight orders. I may run dry again by this afternoon. We’ll assemble another two dozen over the weekend and get started on yet another batch of 30.
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I also need to get some purchase orders issued. When I called one of our vendors yesterday to check price and availability, several items were back-ordered, some until mid-October. Fortunately, I have other sources for all the stuff with long lead times.
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16:20 –<\/span> We’ve sold a total of only four chemistry kits today, so we still have two left. I’m headed downstairs shortly to box up 24 more, or as many as I can do with the components we have on hand and ready to use.
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Barbara is always coming up with new ideas for how to use my new shipping scale. It’s accurate to one gram up to 20 kg, so there are quite a few things I can use it for. Here’s her latest suggestion.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>So I decided to give it a try here at home.<\/span><\/p>\n

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And I just found out something else it works fine for. I’d ordered 400 alligator clip leads, which come in packages of five in small plastic bags, all contained in a large plastic bag. So instead of counting to make sure I had 80 of the small bags, I just weighed the big bag, which was 3.99 kilos. I then weighed five of the small plastic bags, which weighed 0.25 kilos. Much faster than counting, and less subject to error.
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Oh, and FedEx just showed up with two early copies of Illustrated Guide to Home Forensic Science Experiments. It looks great.
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07:36 – Well, of those six chemistry kits I put together yesterday afternoon, three are spoken for by overnight orders. I may run dry again by this afternoon. We’ll assemble another two dozen over the weekend and get started on yet another batch of 30.\n<\/p>\n

I also need to get some purchase orders issued. When I called one of our vendors yesterday to check price and availability, several items were back-ordered, some until mid-October.<\/p>\n

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