chemistry store (M-F 9-10; 2-4) stuff to buy:

• big kimwipes (140 count)
• little kimwipes
• propanol-2 (1 gallon)
• cotton swabs
• gloves (large, xl)
• small trashcan

'spensive stuff to spend money on:

• Rigol arbitrary waveform generators: dg4102 or dg4162, available here
• a nice color USB 4 analog / 16 digital MSO (keysight msox6004a)

moderately 'spensive stuff to spend money on:

• DIY automatic pick-and-place machine
• fiber optic LED replacement lights for probe station and soldering station microscopes
• Agilent E3631A triple-output DC power supply - go for the 36313a
• PoE gigE camera and lens for microscopes this one for instance (go with rpi hq camera)
• UMHV0540N and SMHV0550N HV DC-DC converters from HVM technology (asked for quote)
• handbook of nanophysics
• picoscience
• hdmi c-mount color camera and monitor
• microscope for soldering with color camera attachment
• microscope for soldering (bausch and lomb stereozoom 6 photo or leica equivalent)
• large format inkjet? (just use local print shop?)
• a very fast pulser (~1ns, PMT-like), possibly made from an XOR gate and two different length inputs driven from the same buffered signal (Gerard's device should accomplish this)
• Berkeley Nucleonics digital delay generator
• electronic door locks
• fluke 4 1/2 digit multimeters (got one)
• another dry cabinet (auto-desiccator cabinet; ordered bel-art dry-keeper; ordered another one)
• display case for outside IDLAB
• a new light-tight box

cheap stuff to spend money on:

• long HDMI cable
• masking/painter's tape
• 3
• 5
• a
• b
• c
• d
• e
• 14 AWG ultraflex wire
• loctite
• thermal paste
• superglue
• miscellaneous orders in the not-yet-purchased folder
• Version Control with Subversion, 2nd Edition - Print / Ebook
• Pragmatic Guide to Subversion - Print
• mini-circuits amplifiers
• power supply with multiple outputs for eKLM (excelsys custom?)
• camera mount for probe station microscope for above camera
• altera dev board of some kind
• LEMO connectors: EPS.00.250.NTN, RAD.00.250.???, EPR.00.250.???, epy.00, epl.00, ern.00, epa.00
• ratcheting crimp tool for .1" connectors
• SMA terminators: ANNE-50+
• polycom speakerphone
• sharp probe tips for multimeters (bought some of these in 2015 - Fluke TL910)
• uline plastic bins with dividers and lids or these or these from dealextreme
• mini-fuses for the power entry modules

stuff to repeatedly spend money on:

• uline 4x6 anti-static sealing bags
• hook-up wire (14, 22, 24 awg, plus things in the digikey wanted file)
• Xilinx ISE/vivado (digikey) and Modelsim(?)
• Mentor Graphics PADS (ask about node-locked licenses)
• reprint some posters at kinko's
• heat shrink labels from allspec
• toner for canon imagerunner 5975 (GPR-27 Yellow Black Cyan Magenta 9645A008AA 9644A008AA 9643A008AA 9642A008AA; these are the wrong part numbers perhaps?; ordered something else)
• rack mount cases, ventilated cantilever trays, telescopic cantilever trays, telescopic trays, universal trays, fixed trays
• desiccant to throw in with stuff (get some more)

already purchased:

• fiber optic attenuator for DUT box
• water chiller for cooling electronics
• 2 new desk chairs
• digital scale
• USB programmable bench power supply (rigol?; ordered)
• industrial mini-PCs that have freely available ethernet drivers (perhaps a Raspberry pi?; ordered)
• desk chairs (uline; ordered 3)
• buy heat sealer and tubes of plastic for shipping clean boards (ordered)
• dewalt 18V drill/driver (got one)
• get quote for thermal component for SolidWorks (http://www.solidworks.com/sw/products/10201_ENU_HTML.htm) - done!
• GPIB USB (got one)
• GPIB ethernet (got one)
• infrared sensitive camera (got one)

obsolete wants:

• wire-wrap tool (got one)
• more lascar voltmeters, or maybe fewer
• 1/8" jobbers drill bits (1/16" and 3/16", too?)
• compactPCI CPUs
• HD-60 and NZL-L06B from koolance
• DSP_cPCI assembly
• FEL: 360' or 720' of LMR 240 coax cable (to replace that stolen from the FEL group; FEL account)
• a 3U cPCI crate + CPU (copperserver=2 eth, pilas laser controller=rs232; obsolete)
• USB programmable function generator (gt 80MHz) tektronix AFG3252 dual channel 240MHz or Agilent 33522A dual channel 30MHz (or some other agilent/rigol/tektronix)
• USB/LAN programmable rack-mount power supply (Agilent N6712A MPS mainframe with four N6773A modules (15A/20V) and a N6709A rack mount kit; asked electrorent for quote)
• closed lug/spade connectors to go on shunts ("ring terminals" - bought appropriate ones in early 2015)
• new camera for lab (that is hidden from anyone who doesn't work in the IDLAB; ordered)
• another soldering iron (weller or hakko SMT station?; ordered hakko; ordered weller; ordered metcal)
• 11x17 paper tray for imagerunner 5975 (pf-98b; ordered; no longer manufactured)