Sleepy!

A friend of ours got dropped at the climbing gym a few weeks back - he shattered both his heel bones and has had surgery to wire what pieces are left back together. Thin rope and a gri gri - he was leading and fell off near a draw, so there was no shock load on the gri gri, and the person wasn't holding the rope end - lots of people belay like this, I believe it is the leaders responsibility not to use a gri gri/think rope and if they do to make sure the belayer is aware of this risk and holds the lock off end at all times.

Anyway - he is home from hospital and we wen to to his place for dinner - it was great, but I realise today that I might have had a few too many glasses of red. Not sure how too many, but everything is difficult and I still haven't been to the gym this week. Today the diffractometer was free and I loaded a crystal. The crystal is about 0.2mm in size and I have to physically transfer it using a drop of oil and a skinny metal rod from a glass slide onto a tiny fibre. This usually takes between 1 and 10 minutes depending on how you are feeling, and today it took me over an hour. This is number 1 of 10 I'm supposed to get through and man is it starting to annoy me that I had those few glasses of red.

I have to get to the gym tomorrow - I feel like a seal. At least I've been walking to and from work everyday - half an hour each way, which is better than nothing...