God what a shit xmas. Old man got me SPOONS for fucks sake. Meant well, but it was so I can measure things out for the lab.
Although he did just rectify it, seeing that he'd way overshot the mark in the wrong direction, and just got me several sets of beakers of various sizes from micro to macro-scale. That was decent of him. And he'd already got me a knife along with the spoons (as in, an excellent quality folding blade type, swiss army knife) I confess, I did have to retire a FEW spoons, from the ones in the house, after they ended up rusting terribly or partially disintegrating, but not three sets of the things. Trying, quite honestly, to be helpful. But here, at least we can be honest with each other (not that I think I COULD have disguised my facial expression, only assume it translates the same way to NT expressions,), so just ordered me a few big sets of beakers, right down to 5ml and right up to large ones, and he asked if I could use the former, and I said yes, since I am putting together an ultramicroscale setup, already got things like 10ml and 5ml reaction flasks, the latter with integrated distillation sidearms, condenser, vigreaux etc, and the next smallest size up I have is 50ml, again one-piece rxn flasks with still takeoffs), so a bunch of packs with wide size-ranges when it comes to beakers, those, i can never have enough of, as invariably, things end up IN them.
The knife is a good one, victorianox, well known for making good swiss army knives. (although what use the swiss have for an army is a bit...well....they aren't really the warmaking type are they
