Lol. Not quite that far.
But there have been a fair few neat finds now and then, over the time I've had the bed itself, theres been unopened bags of sweets, packs of gum, the occasional bottle of coke, cans of beer, money of course is easy to mislay. Found some just earlier actually, not a huge amount, a few quid, but welcome all the same.
Just recently the other day I relocated a book I bought a while ago and didn't start because I was reading several others. Found two actually, one, a mixture of genetics, molecular biology, and neurology/neurobiology/neurochemistry. The other one I can remember the name of, that one I can't right now and I CBF going upstairs to check, atm. the other book is some specialist mycology text dealing with the ergot fungi, biology, historical importance, medicinal import, chemistry , identification, culture, mutagenesis techniques for breeding wildtype strains and mutating them until one gets a strain suitable for production of lysergic acid prercursor compounds, culture techniques, from petri dish scale to industrial scale fermentation/submerged culture, or if one is going the growing route rather than doing all the actual production stage in fields of grain/cereal crop. Or, rather, cereal grasses used as merely hosts for the parasite, and all sorts of stuff like how specialist designs of vehicle used for infecting fields with greatest efficiency, think combine harvester or plow on a tractor, only the hardware is a big tank of liquid suspension laden with either spore solutions, or suspensions of mycelium, big spiked rollers, sprayed with the solution as the vehicle travels over the field of cereal at the right stage of the grain plant host's lifecycle, the rollers prickling the grass ears with loads of infectious spines, covered in the spore solution and thus introducing the infection.
in hardback copy, I have the ebook in a .PDF form, but I scoured the net until eventually I managed to find a hardcopy for sale at an affordable price. Got one forl about $40-something USD. The others I could find online, even secondhand, were £100 GBP,or even more. Very pleased with that, because I've wanted the book in a paper copy, the actual real book. For the main reason of portability really, because I don't want my laptop in the lab, at all if I can help it, for the same reason I relocated my microscope, and a lot of the electronics, only major electronic kit I left in there, is both my mag-stirrer/hotplates, the IR digital thermometer, and my autoclave. There's the vac pump too but I've not the space to mount both the pump, permanently, and to go with it, I need both place to securely mount a multi-line manifold, and set up schlenk line (a schlenk line is a setup for occasions when its needed to work under hard vacuum and keep everything strictly anhydrous,/ working with the sort of thing that
MUST be handled dry and under inert gas, for instance, if one wishes to make use of reagents like say, tert-butyllithium, diborane:THF adduct, and other such organometallics like BuLi, such as organocopper reagents, various catalysts, Raney nickel for instance, although the extreme vac/inert environment and anhydrous conditions of a schlenk isn't mandatory, one can keep raney nickel sopping wet with solvent it shouldn't .spontaneously ignite. Just an example of a pyrophoric catalyst, although compared to some reagents that like to burst into flame whenever the chance may arise its fairly tame.
And of course, thats just the sort of hardware that comes in handy if conducting a synthesis and one or more steps requires the use of any reagents and/or solvents that are ungodly poisonous.
And the odd not-so-neat find turned up in the past under the bed. Got cut on glass before, and tidying it up, managed to get a needlestick injury from a dropped rig that had rolled under the edge of the bed. Another time some sort of invertebrate critter or other delighted in the opportunity to sink a pair of fangs into my finger. Don't know what it was, I never saw it, only felt something go and chomp down on me, that wasn't big enough to be mammalian, and neither reptile nor amphibian would be found there that wasn't meant to be for some reason, if ever there were any. And no bird, featherless, small, bite-y, chitinous, wriggly, unholy wick little bastard.
