I bought an electron microscope...

I did it! Really!

SEMJOURNAL

DrGab

7/1/20231 min read

...hem...

Without even knowing how, I find myself with the phone ringing to announce that they are loading the SEM onto the trailer that will take it to its new home: my garage!

a man in a truck transporting a scanning electron microscope
a man in a truck transporting a scanning electron microscope

For the occasion, I made space and reorganized my chaos of compulsive collector of all sorts of odds and ends and avid nerd. It's certainly not worthy of the prestigious laboratory where the SEM once resided, but it's still better than a container. A tool that used to cost as much as a house with a swimming pool and now is sold for just over a euro per kilogram.
An electron microscope!
But what the hell am I going to do with it?
Okay, it didn't cost too much!
Tthere are fifty-year-olds who buy motorcycles, and I bought an SEM...

I'll let my kids play with it...
I'll let my kids' companions and friends play with it...
I'll learn how an electron microscope really works on it: resistor after resistor and operational amplifier after operational amplifier...
Perhaps I'll meet equally crazy people who will accompany me on this venture...
Perhaps this ton of metal, battered by time, will never work, and I'll curse and swear...

But now it doesn't matter!

I have an electron microscope in my garage, and it's super awesome!

I bought an SEM, and no matter what happens, it will be a success!

SemGarage!
SemGarage!