The very definition of a nightmare tenant.
Hey now, no loud parties featuring puking guests, no 3am "band practice", no smoking anything (unless vaping counts, but the smell is pleasant and doesn't last), rent always paid on time, and so on. I cause 'interesting' damage that will be evident in three days, but day-to-day I'm not the worst tenet.
Wanna borrow my sig? It sounds like you need it more than I do right now...
I mean, we need it about the same. In my case it's a big hassle of moving to a town I dislike that is an hour away, living with my parents again at 28, and then trying to figure out how to finish my thesis. The state of my apartment is all my fault: I'm a slob and have never been able to change that.about myself, all the while accumulating more crap (and debt) all the time.
One thing that unites us, that "normals" don't get - the sheer amount of energy it takes to move, when you never have energy to begin with. Most people seem to treat all this as a minor-to-moderate nuisance, rather than something damages your psyche for several days as you (or at least I) find out how utterly useless.
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I also have a specific rant about one particular annoying member of the periodic table that featured in one of my distracting experiments.
Gallium sounds cool, because it's non-toxic and melts just above room temperature. And if you alloy it with ~20% indium and ~10% tin, you get a liquid metal eutectic that is liquid at room temp -
galinstan. I made some of it a couple of weeks ago.
The first time you play with galinstan, it seems cool because it's like mercury but nontoxic. But then you realize that it coats everything, and I do mean everything. Your hands are coated in a thin layer of gallium. Any container you put and then pour it back out of get a nice thick layer of left-behind gallium. I even poured it into a Teflon container and then poured it back out - still a thin layer of gallium left behind! I have no idea how it found a way t adsorb onto PTFE, but there you go. Also, most metals, but especially aluminum, that come into contact with it will be damaged by it, becoming weaker and more brittle. This is a problem if you're writing on a MacBook with gallium-stained fingers. The main way I know of to get rid of it in containers is with a strong base; for fingers I just wash them, which helps a little, and then let it slowly fall off. Can't exactly use NaOH or KOH on it.
Its congeners in the boron group are all pretty interesting. Boron is a metalloid tougher than anything elemental besides diamond, and its carbide and nitride are tougher still. Aluminum needs no introduction. And then I love indium: it does wet surfaces like gallium, but not as bad, and you can make beautiful LEDs with it. It's the softest non-reactive-with-water metal, and you can twist it into any shape you want with your bare hands. You can melt it on the stove in a Teflon-coverered stick-free pan, and make indium pancakes which you can then shape with your bare hands.to surround your neutron source or geiger counter. It absorbs neutrons and has one of the best cross-sections for my low-flux experiment. And then I don't know much about thallium, mostly because it's so ludicrously toxic that people don't use it much, unlike other heavy metals like cadmium and mercury and lead. Even I was brave enough to touch my gram of it once.
But gallium? It's brittle rather than malleable when solid, and wets every surface like whenever Gram-Gram forgets her Depends. The only time it's cool is when it's alloyed with arsenic to make gallium arsenide, a useful semiconductor. Arsenic must have had an excess of cool and felt the need to donate some to gallium, which was clearly struggling.
Mercury is so much better as a liquid metal, in every way. Yes, it's toxic in vapor or compound form, but it doesn't stick to things. It's shiny, and it's by far the densest liquid that exists at room temperature and pressure: We should restore mercury to its rightful place.
