Tuesday 19 March 2013

Medication Probability


You know how when you open a packet of pills the law of averages inexplicably fails and you always manage to open it at the wrong (the one with the folded over list of instructions / nasty side effects) and have to turn the packet round? Opened 4 new packets of medications yesterday and managed to get the correct end on 3 of them. What are the chances of that happening again? - the odds are phenomenally against it

Not long to go now as far as the house is concerned - we put some furniture in over the weekend. Yet to be done are:

  • The wood burner chimney (today or tomorrow) and inserting a ventilation air-brick,
  • Hoicking the range into place,
  • Final visit by the electrician to hook up a few more lights and the range,
  • Fabrication of a 2 metre, stainless steel cooker hood / extractor fan,
  • Plugging all the gaps on the oak,
  • Connecting a Calor gas supply for the separate gas hob.


Got to get this...


...into here...


...and get the dining table into where I'm standing to take the photo.


4 comments:

Unknown said...

that is exactly as it is with tablet packets - it happens so often I was beginning to wonder if they were all packed by a left handed machine

Chairman Bill said...

Mike - it's a law of physics, I'm certain. The laws of probability are suspended as far as pill packets are concerned.

Might place bets with people and instead of flipping a coin, I'll use a pill packet, knowing what the outcome will be...

Geo. said...

Matched only by the chances of accessing one of those plastic sealed items without the use of a chainsaw and chisel...

Wojciech Roszkowski said...

Great article.