I started on arsenic caps for Geiger Counter Guy yesterday, and was supposed to finish them up today. But I got a call from D, asking if I could help unskirt their old fifth-wheel.
This is a sign of progress. D&L have moved into their beautiful new strawbale-and-earthbag house, and have been cleaning up the fifth-wheel trailer they lived in for six years so they could sell it. Now it’s all unhooked from utilities, the water lines blown out and the P-traps filled with antifreeze. But unskirting it would be a major undertaking because it’s skirted with sandbags. This being D&L, who never do a job when they can overdo it, it’s skirted with hundreds of sandbags.
Or rather it was. Five hours of back-bending labor later, all those bags have been pulled, emptied and stuffed for disposal. I’m on good terms with D&L right now. But I still owe GC Guy about six hours of mind-deadening repetition on arsenic caps, and that job pays money.
A bit after the fact, but did it occur to schlep those filled bags back to the Lair for erosion control purposes?
What exactly are the arsenic caps used for?
Their end use is with test strips. Basically this company has found an extremely inexpensive way to convert the caps of squirt bottles into testers for arsenic in water. They’re very popular overseas, I’m told.
And not a penny of government money ever comes near’em.
Ah…thank you. For some odd reason, I thought they might be used in Geiger Counters and I couldn’t think why that might be the case.