2 Weeks on, Half way done.
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So this is my 7th blog post, exactly 2 weeks after starting this blog. So far I feel this blog has been a revelation to me.
This blog is pushing me to advance, but enjoy what I'm doing, and I'll be honest that I feel it is doing me a lot of good.
Today, I have just gone over my halfway point in making the arrow shafts. So in my opinion I'm nearly hallfway through this whole campaign to 99 fletching and 86 smithing, however having gained only one level so far it still seems like 99 will be a while off. I took a break as well, burnt quite a few logs and levelled firemaking up, so am now 85 fire making. I have thousands of maples sitting in my bank from MTK, so using them for firemaking is a viable way for me to level firemaking for no real cost.
My labwork hit a wall yesterday. A reaction carried out by someone else in the lab promised a 10 minute reaction time under stupidly mild conditions, however to get the reaction to proceed, my reaction required heating at 60 degrees celcius overnight. It made me frustrated no end when the person who carried it out kept referencing different compounds saying that it should go immediately, however he has absolutely no knowledge of how my molecules behave, so was really not helping me at all. I decided that it needed to be heated and as such set everything up and left it over night. Subsequently, I turned up this morning fearing the worst with no expectations for what could have happened. I was pleasantly suprised when all my original compound had gone and a new product had been formed. However, the solvent it was in is a pain to remove, so i haven't confirmed what i've isolated yet and its drying at the moment. hopefully tomorrow. However, what is fun is that my materials start yellow, go orange after one step, stay orange for 2 more steps then go bright red. The next step I think should be white, or a colourless oil.
I also realised that what i'm doing hasn't been amazingly productive due to my poor amount of material, so I'm going back to the beginning and dragging as much material through all the reactions as i can. I should be at the same stage by about wednesday next week I think, with hopefully a lot more material. I've been writing a report as well, planning out what i'll be doing over the next 2 weeks, and hopefully I can have my glorious final compound.
I started learning afraid to shoot strangers by Iron Maiden the other day, and i must say its definately one of my favourite maiden songs, but it makes me really want to get their new album, but right now there is no way i can afford it. oh well.
I'm gonna be writing up a lot of stuff this saturday I think, as I've written a list for the computer games forum, and need to type it up, and also been doing some fiction type writing. As well as that I have project stuff to write up, which is more important than the others, but the others are helping in my ability to write, as is this blog, as it is something that I feel I'm not very good at.
This Sunday I'm going to the beach for a barbeque with friends, and as such have a feeling that this weekend is gonna be awesome.
I think I should start getting some pictures on here, but I'm not too sure where to host them...
Oh well
Thanks for reading.
Peace.
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