This one's for my lava lamp(and Rbill)

On Saturday morning as I was heading out the door for work, I noticed a chill in the air and so grabbed a jacket from my coat rack. This would have been nothing to note had I then not heard a rather loud thump followed by a heavy glug glug glug. Yes, the jacket I grabbed caught hold of my lava lamp sitting on the desk below it and pulled the ancient artifact onto the floor. The cap had somehow lost it's top in the oddest of ways and the innards began pouring out.  So, with 2 minutes at my disposal to leave the house before I would be late for work, I hurriedly soaked up two old t-shirts worth of the dull blue yet somehow glowing liquid, set a fan in front of it and made sure my pets were outside before jetting off. Seeing as I received this blue lava lamp with a gold base for my 8th birthday, the thing was only 14 days shy of seeing it's own 16th birthday. Now all that's left of this childhood favorite toy is a very large and very odd blue stain in the guest bedroom.