I am usually throughout the day thinking about things I have to do, and get done, sometimes its nice just to do things you don't really have to do. For example at work I make small materials (nano). These a lot of time need to have specific functions. They need to be stable in water, safe to inject, or change color when a reaction happens. The whole time though you are forcing these things to happen, or you throw away materials that don't behave as you want for your specific application at that time. I like to keep them, and on a quiet day just observe them, like watching a cloud. I don't force them to do specific things, but here you notice. Recently I found one material that turns orange when you freeze it, where its dark green normally . Others, clump together and form a mush. There are so many observations there to make, without measuring anything. Lots of it also doesn't really lead anywhere, but it is possible you find something interesting, to explore in a proper manner. Tonight the plan is to measure the conductivity of the newly formed orange material, and if it changes that could be a strange sort of sensor. Or if not a new type of mood ring.
Frozen Orange
Interesting work you are involved in. Sounds like a place where a major discovery could happen.
As an update nothing worked. Haha. But hopefully something does next time.