A Minor Thought: Making Many Many Tiny Friends

I had for some time wondered what would happen when my various apothecary nonsense things went bad. I sometimes had things that turned out strange, and some things that didn’t set right and turned out gross, but eventually the day did come when I had something TURN BAD from OLD AGE.

Observe! Early-version lip balm from over a year prior that I had decanted into a larger tin because I’d run out of little guys, which had been living under my work computer for, uh, several months.

So the lesson here is:

• Keep an eye on your cosmetics
• Don’t create weird environments for tiny friends under your work computer’s variable temperatures
• Be prepared for SCIENCE to attack you in the FACE unexpectedly and with INTENT