Folks, as I am scribbling the content of this post, I am preparing a film deposition with the most hazardous gas composition. Leaks might develop and some explosion might not be contained, both of which could result in a traumatic physical/mental situation. In that case, all blogging related activities might be hold idle for quite some time.

I am going through the pre-deposition check list: evacuating air from the system, purging it with neutral gas, activating the leak detector, and finally putting the gasses to the reactor. Hopefully, everything will turn out OK.

Later.

Updated 07/21
Statistics of the last seven days:

Number of times...
...exposed (might be) to a certain poisonous gas: 2
...experiencing pyrophoric explosion less than 6 feet away: 2
...exposed to a naked 6328 nm laser radiation: 1
...experiencing a high voltage electric shock: 1
...hit (mildly) by a racquetball ball: 1
...almost passed out from cardio-exercising presumably due to no/lack of cooling-down: 2

It's a crazy life I've been leading.