I Love Working on Saturdays

The best thing about Saturdays, is the lab is not as crowded. During the week we are fairly bustling with activity. There are reports to write, new experiments to design, and data that has to be cataloged. On Saturdays, I can pretty much just tinker around with things.

One of the more popular mis-conceptions about the reanimated dead is that they are slow moving. As a rule, that's not always the case. It really depends on:

• the manner of their death,
• the physical condition prior to death,
• how long they have been dead,
• whether or not I've had time to inject their tissue with Paracanthenol.

Paracanthenol is a compound we developed here to restore and optimize the neural pathways that run from the brains muscle controls, to the necrotic flesh. We've seen mobility improvements up to 120% by injecting the muscles and allowing the chemical to work it's magic over a 72 hour period. The subjects get a corresponding increase in strength and agility as well. You have to be careful with these experiments. Early on, we lost a few lab personnel, and that made us take a bit more care with the safety procedures. On the upside, we did get a few more subjects for the experiments. I was previously worried about losing my grad student Alexis at the end of our funding period this year. Seems like she will be staying with us after all. :-)

Are you guys watching House? Oooh that's a great television program. So many people decry the medium of television as a wasteland. I myself used to view it as such, but I'm starting to have hope again.

It's Friday Night...

I finished work at the lab a little late tonight. General McInnery came by and wanted to chat about our progress with the latest round of testing. I guess he was curious since he spent a lot of political capital to cover up our latest round of acquisitions. The bodies had to be taken (in reasonably good condition) from Southwest Asia and flown all the way to our lab in secure, freezing conditions to slow the process of decay. A lot of money had to change hands with some local tribal officials to allow us to remove the corpses with no promise of return. It seems to have worked out ok for now. I've got 25 fresh new corpses, all on ice, ready for our work to begin anew.

General McInnery is not a bad sort of guy. He's pretty nice for a military type. He just wants results and I can respect that. He also seems kind of lonely. I've got a reanimated Pashtun tribesman I can give him, just for company. He doesn't really say anything, he just kind of moans, and groans. I call him Carlyle. He looks like a Carlyle to me anyway. As I said before, he just kind of sits around and moans, but he's not trouble at all. He will stay in one place until you move him. General McInnery could use him as a sounding board for new ideas. Carlyle can't offer any real feedback, but sometimes when you are working on a new project, it just helps to have someone to sit there and listen.

Oooh and there were tacos in the cafeteria today!! I love tacos. They seem to really get me in the mood for a wild weekend. I rented the movie, Shaun of the Dead (again). I really like the humor, and the editing in that film. It seems to create an out of control feeling at times, and I like that.

All in all it's been a good Friday for a change. I'm looking forward to coming in late tomorrow and working on re-animating the speech centers in some of my test subjects. It should be great fun.