Time Well Spent

i wish that was truth. yesterday morning i was preparing for a productive day. importantly trying to track down a problem with LaTeX. my advisor comes in and has some weird idea about this vacuum pump controller we have. she messed up and bought a valve that isn't totally compatible with everything we have. after she said we were keeping the valve, i looked at the thing and wrote down what we would need to make it work. she ordered only one of the four things i wrote down to order and then came to tell me that we should use quick connect couplings for it. despite the fact that parts for this route were not obviously available from our usual supplier and the fact that we don't really have a need for quick connect couplings. but whatever. i spend something like an hour talking to her and then another hour and a half looking up part numbers and trying to figure out parts that would work (reducing a tube that has an inner diameter of 3/4in to a threaded tube connection that is something around 1/8 in, measuring the current threaded tube connector to determine if it was tapered iso or npt, etc...). the drawing was the fun part... and took the least time.