Dang it, where'd they all go?

 

Probably out there playing volleyball in the sand instead of working at the lab bench.

 

Anyway, in case anyone out there can hear me, I guess I'll hunt-and-peck for a little longer.  Read me.  Read me.  You can't hear me, even if I shout.

 

CAN YOU HEAR ME NOW???  I guess in cyberspace, noone can hear you scream.

 

That's a little, you know, pop culture reference.

 

To the movie.  Alien.  You know?

 

Well, my name in Nanz, Mike Nanz, and I'm a lab manager in a Midwestern USA academic research laboratory.  We study all sorts of things, from Immunology to Virology to Cancer.  We use a lot of rats in our research, which was one of the reasons our basketball team is called the "Lab Bratz".

 

You see, we work in a lab, with lab rats, and we eat a lot of Bratwurst here, which we call "Brats", and the "Z" at the end, well that just makes us all "hip" and "edgy".

 

And a lot of the young'uns that "work" around here are, well, rotten BRATS, as some of you probably guessed.

 

Well, I'm not sure we're very edgy, but I'm on edge a lot, so let's just move on, okay?

 

beedebeep, beedebeep, beedebeep

 

Oh, that's my timer.  

 

beedebeep, beedebeep, beedebeep

 

Let me get that.

 

beedebeep, beedebeep, beedebeep

 

Crud.

 

beedebeep, beedebeep, beede...

 

Okay, I got it.  I got it.  My digest is ready, and I need to run it out on a gel, so I guess I'm done here for today.  Goodbye.

 

I said I'm done.  You can stop reading now.  What are you, deaf?  Blind.  I mean, blind.  But then, you wouldn't have gotten...this...far...

 

Hmmm.  How do you turn this darn thing off?  O'Grady?  I can't find the 'OFF' button!  O'Grady!

 

Dang.  Maybe if I just pull the electrical plug out of the outle