Water movement

Currently, the underground lab of the Eyring Science Center is under major construction. It was scheduled to be done yesterday, so we can safely assume completion by December. As part of the construction, the building distilled water has been shut off down there. Last semester, I was mostly writing my thesis, so I wasn't affected by the lack of water. Now, however, I am back at the research grindstone (I will probably detail what I do in a later, far more boring post). In short, I can do little without access to a source of distilled water. So I spent this afternoon trying to get a 15 gallon container filled with distilled water up into the utility room above my lab. It was insane amounts of fun. There is a 1 ton pulley system that is used to haul things up there, and I felt very cool using it for the far less than one ton jug of water (which I had only filled half way at the chemistry supply room. For FREE! Hooray! Free!). It got up there in the end, but then I realized that once I started siphoning the water through, I wouldn't be able to stop it. So now the jug sits alone, closed, and unused. I pity it's sad state, but hope that it will soon fulfill the measure of it's creation.