Stepping up my game

1st and 2nd weeks were pretty rough on both me and the girls .. the story is the following My old PH pen (Milwaukee), which worked great for 1 year, was stored without solution and I had some PH issues (wrong readings), so I thought 1 year was enough and it's time for a new PH pen; so I bought a BlueLab PH Pen; little I did know, that the new BlueLab PH Pen was damaged (saw after a few days of damage to the girls that the liquid inside the electrode bulb had some contaminant, like dirt inside, I added a photo); on top of this, apparently, the old PH pen hydrated and started to work correctly; so no I had 2 PH pens, one that was working correct and I thought it was wrong, and one new that was damaged but I thought that it should be reliable. The girls felt all this crap, I nearly lost one (Apricot). I returned the BlueLab Pen and got a replacement, and guess what, now I have 2 PH pens that both show the same correct PH. FML. At least the girls are ok. This went also in week 3 for a few days.