Interesting conversation with security.

Sometimes my job seens really silly. Today i am taking a modified measuring cylinder to belgium by train. Apparently no-one in belgium is available to drill a hole in a measuring cylinder clamp a valve from a bicycle tube, seal it with silicone, and mount it on a wooden platform... Every engineer I speak to, however, will tell me how I could do it better next time, which might have been helpful if I had another measuring cyclinder. I have my jokes ready for those conversations... but it is the security guards at the international borders that catch me off guard with their sense of humour...

Grateful for a lovely walk to the station with Ni, when she could quite easily have stayed in bed, and for having allowed just enough time to compensate for the cancelled train.