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There has been cause for substantial excitement this week at work - The lorryloads of thrislington panels have arrived - the Air handling units already in place and a couple of major client related hitches have been fixed. The order book is back to really robust levels and old man is actually spending most afternoons reading or staying at home.

Onto specific details:

I have express, unconditional approval for completing the Lab up - including a new spare Modular HPLC, Agilent 7820 GC** WITH a studly 1883 12 vial headspace sampler. Possibly also redo layouts, a new copier, possibly another Stability chamber, QA space with sample cabinets and so on.

I am doing up a sort of a webpage with more specific information on the lab - possibly basing the content backbone on the newly released PICS Aide Memoire* on Inspection of Laboratories. Mostly to be able to take comments from more knowledgable friends from the Industry who otherwise dont have the time to sift through these long emails i tend to send them with questions.

All the excitement aside, i feel a little pressurized because a) The whole project - done over the next 3 months involves an incredible amount of hifi hardware & money b) I am more than concerned about getting / training people in Madurai to do justice to all this fancy equipment.

Dont blame me if youre bored. Cant manage coherent thought on anything else.

More later.

(*You have to love the French. They call white papers "Aide Memoire"s which means that they are not strict guidelines but a sort of information document which can give a broad sense of the subject. Frenchification of terms does give them that added glamour :x. no? )

(** hell, i'd like the Agilent 7890 - with 2 simultaneously mountable detectors & inlet pressure controllable at 0.001 increments - but it costs about 8000 dollars more - a bit like Pulsar 150 VS Pulsar 220 - for buying a decent mobike for smalltime use in Madurai)