A simplified version of my day today:
I couldn't process some data today because I didn't have the correct labels.
My advisor didn't have time to give me the labels because he needed me to check something.
I couldn't work on that because one of our roughing pumps started making some dreadful noise.
I couldn't see the oil indicator because I needed a flashlight.
I couldn't use the flashlight because the batteries were dead.
I couldn't replace batteries because they had fused to the tube with so much corrosion.
I couldn't take the corroded bit apart because it had a custom wavelength LED I would damage.
and on and on and on
Later, fixing things involving getting a piece of lye stuck under my fingernail, cycling the UHV pumps, and putting on 2.3 miles just trying to find a single important piece of glassware - my advisor comes and asks if I had that data processed for him to look at.