The freezer

I spent a decent amount of my day talking about a freezer. Specifically, a freezer capable of maintaining an arctic -80 degrees. This seems to be the temperature that human biologic specimens like best, and what you need to run a lab. Someday PHRI is going to have a fantastic lab, that tests for the sexually transmitted diseases that affect poor women all over the Mysore Taluk. Right now we have a freezer in the basement, and a washing machine in the lab. Turns out, it's not easy to get a -80 freezer up and running, even in San Francisco. Fortunately at the City Clinic were able to give up and just sent our business to Stanford. Here, we need approval from the Karnataka Electrical Board to get more electricity from a grid that fails a couple times a day at baseline, a signature from a landlord who apparently resides on the other side of the planet, recognition as a charitable organization to make it affordable, a special vent installed, and an electrician to give us his blessing that we can turn it on without draining the entire neighborhood. It will happen, it will be great, and really really cold.