You take pictures, right?

There I was as work today thinking "Well, it's Monday... only 5 day until the weekend".  You see, the daily grind is starting to take its toll on me.  I've been on the same project for a year now.  That's a pretty long stretch for me.  I's usually a couple of weeks (or days) here or there, then off to the next job.  It kinda keeps things fresh and different.  It's the same type of work, put at least the scenery and faces change.  With that being said, A year looking at the same place and same faces, day in and day out kinda wears on me.  I need something different!

The day started out like just another work day.  Work, work, work, gripe about whatever, work, work, work, joke about something, and so on.  In the middle of the morning, a lady from the lab comes in is looking for me.  "Oh great, what did I do now?  Did I turn the power off to something I wasn't supposed to?"  She walks over to me with a stack of papers in her arms.  "You take pictures, right?  Didn't I hear you say something about your camera?" she asked me.  I told her that I did and then she pulls out this index card with six circles on it.  It's blank, with come company name on it and six circles.  "We need someone who can take a photo of this."  In the back of my mind, I'm thinking, "OK, what's wrong with a photocopy?  Stick it in the copier and and press start."  She then goes on to say "This is a (whatever, technical mumbo jumbo) test, and when it tests positive it (insert more mumbo jumbo here).  It looks like little flecks of pepper."  OK, that much I understood.  "Do you think you could do that?"  she asked.  "Sure, I'll give it a try"

About an hour later, she comes back over to me with the index card.  This time, two of the circles have some type of red liquid in the center of them.  Now, she works in the Hemotology section of the lab, I wonder what the red stuff is?  Better yet, what exactly is this card testing for?  Do I want to handle one that has the pepper flakes in it?  I told her I would bring my camera into work tommorrow to see what I could do.  I should probably make sure I have my Macro lens, and maybe my t-mount just in case I'm able to mount the camera to one of their microscopes.  This should be interesting.

Just in case you're reading this and don't know what I do for a living, I'm an electrician and have been working on a job re-modeling the lab at a hospital.  I'm not sure what kind of impressions the first couple of paragraphs may have left, so I just wanted to clear that up.

If I get some interesting photos of the pepper flakes, I'll post them here.

On a side note, I just thought this was the funniest thing's I've seen in a long time. Enjoy the video.



Remember kids, don't drink and get caught on video!