Yesterday I got home pretty tired after work.
The picture above is what I did at work. I made some shelves and put some boxes on them. That took all day.
The shelves came in five different cardboard boxes.
The lab manager and I put the shelves together in the hallway because there isn’t enough room for it on the floor in this room. That took about an hour.
We pushed the shelves in after putting them together. Everyone laughed thinking that we couldn’t fit them through the door. SHOWED THEM DIDN’T WE?!?
The shelves are seven feet tall. They’ll be holding the thousands of different varieties of seed in those boxes on them.
Next, the lab manager wanted to construct another set of shelves for other lab storage.
This other shelf had to fit into a space taken up by even more shelves.
The lab manager, another lab guy, and I spent half an hour shoving the other shelves around until there was just enough room to squeeze the new set of shelves in.
The lab manager started putting together that other shelf while I and the other lab guy worked on those boxes you can see in the picture.
Each box holds more than a hundred varieties of seed. Some hold close to 600.
These seeds were stored in ordinary cardboard boxes previously. Like the kind that you pack your stuff in when you move.
This storage was pretty unorganized. Our job is to sort them out and put them into the new boxes which will be much more organized.
So I spent all day taking envelopes of rice seeds from one box, writing down what the envelopes said on an Excel sheet, and putting the envelope into a new box.
It is WAY more ordered now. Previously, it’d take 5 minutes to find a particular variety of seed. When we’re done it’ll take 5 seconds.
I worked my way through one cardboard moving box and was on my second when the day finished.
The other lab worker and I got through about 1,000 seed varieties each. Lots more boxes to go through though!
This taste of the more mundane side of lab life was brought to you by the talking horse.
-Mister Ed
GoCorral 
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