No boss there to tell me to write proposals.

No colleagues there to send me paper proofs.

Everyone is at a retreat.

You can't leave me unsupervised like this.

I'll just roam around my labs and find things that irritate me.

Like this wire, pinched since the 1980s.

Be free, wire!

One aspect I like about working in an old lab is that you can always find random junk to make your stuff work if you need to improvise. My box of random questionable hoses has come in handy quite a few times!