When I get to work this morning I’ll be greeted with a brand spankin’ new Agilent 1200 HPLC sitting on the bench in my lab. It has a diode array detector (no flippin’ MS this time). Pretty sweet. Gosh, early 1990’s LC capability- already!
It is interesting how the installer assumed I’d be doing reverse phase work. Must be what most of the weenies in pharma are using. Carbon-heteroatom-carbon-heteroatom-carbon-heteroatom-carbon=heteroatom-carbon-heteroatom- … maleate.
Lamentations on Chemistry 
Lucky. I got to work this morning and found all my analogue GC integrators were down. Yep, analogue integrators with rolls of paper and low volume ink cartriges.