My camera went AWOL today. I was feeling a bit peeved when I got back to discover it missing, mostly because I'd allowed some scrote to nick it. I should've paid more attention to keeping my sports bag zipped up I thought. Not only did some scrote think they could nick something off me of all people, but they did too! <dark thoughts runs through mind if I'd spotted him, mostly involving me going to prison>
But something didn't add up. I still have the camera case, still unzipped. Oh yes, I remember now, I took a couple of pictures and decided to carry the camera in hand rather than put it back up in its case. Then I went to look at some exhibits in another room, got interested in a one-one talk about sedimentary and igneous rocks, and picked a few rocks up....
D'oh! I must have put my camera down at the exhibit desk and not picked it back up afterwards. Some relief that I wasn't nicked from, but still no camera.
Odd that the woman talking to me about rocks didn't call after me, but I'm fairly confident that that's where I left it, with a small chance I left it at a following exhibit. Bit vague on what I touched in that room after the rock talk (has been a long day looking at all sorts), but nothing comes to mind. Only a £55 camera. Incidentally I mentioned the "golden shower" hypothesis recently published here and in Nature to her, and about being surprised that the convection currents are still going strong, billions of years later, but she said they were also driven by normal convection, which seem obvious now that they should.
Lost/found desk not open until Monday...
Odds of retrieval?
But something didn't add up. I still have the camera case, still unzipped. Oh yes, I remember now, I took a couple of pictures and decided to carry the camera in hand rather than put it back up in its case. Then I went to look at some exhibits in another room, got interested in a one-one talk about sedimentary and igneous rocks, and picked a few rocks up....
D'oh! I must have put my camera down at the exhibit desk and not picked it back up afterwards. Some relief that I wasn't nicked from, but still no camera.
Odd that the woman talking to me about rocks didn't call after me, but I'm fairly confident that that's where I left it, with a small chance I left it at a following exhibit. Bit vague on what I touched in that room after the rock talk (has been a long day looking at all sorts), but nothing comes to mind. Only a £55 camera. Incidentally I mentioned the "golden shower" hypothesis recently published here and in Nature to her, and about being surprised that the convection currents are still going strong, billions of years later, but she said they were also driven by normal convection, which seem obvious now that they should.
Lost/found desk not open until Monday...
Odds of retrieval?
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