So, it turns out yesterday I made the hundredth post to this site! Hundredth! (And I completely failed to notice at the time…) Anyway, yesterday was a quiet half-day Sunday. We slept in and experienced Sunday brunch for the first time (except me; I slept in too long). Ben, a GA who visited here before, […]
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Yesterday I took a tour around outside LDB, looking at the variety of special-purpose sleds and trucks that they use out here. Unsurprisingly, many are made in Canada, just like our awesome parkas (though unlike Laura’s far less awesome imitation parka). We also continue to go without liquid helium, needed to further cool the detectors. […] Yesterday was the first day for Tristan and Giles at the highbay, bringing our total number to nine. We’re really starting to fill out the place. It’s also getting hard to keep track of everyone, especially when I’m buried in code all day. So, I no longer know exactly what everyone’s up to, and don’t […] Yesterday was another in a series of several days in which a wide variety of things were happening. I have pictures of the results of my many hours of painstakingly neat cable routing. The CSBF electronics folks brought over the Universal Terminate Package (UTP), and made some lights light up. CREAM, the other payload here […] Nothing in particular happened yesterday. However, I don’t think that is responsible for my declining number of pictures. Rather, I’ve decided that my enthusiasm for photography is proportional to the amount of sleep I get. So is my verbosity. Yesterday work proceeded as usual, except Laura was around too! I must be getting tired of taking bajillions of photographs every day, as I don’t have very many. The primary operation pictured is laser alignment of the primary and secondary mirrors. The highpoint of the day was fresh delicious cookies that the kitchen staff put […] Yesterday after work I finally went to The Tube (along with Juan and Matt), and it did not disappoint. Sometimes people see seals and large creatures down there, and so, upon returning, I was asked if I saw anything cool. While I didn’t see a seal, and I knew what they meant, I couldn’t say […] Yesterday evening Matt, Juan, Mark, and I walked up Ob(servation) Hill. Like the undersea observation tube, which I plan to visit tonight, Ob Hill was high on the list of things I must do while here. Back at the highbay, Mark had brought in his camera and small collection of lenses—including a very wide angle […] Yesterday was the big push to get the cryostat closed and pumping out before we left for the night. We missed the usual shuttle back to McMurdo, but still finished in time to make it for dinner. During closing, it’s important to take hundreds of pictures, and I did. In other news, the secondary mirror […] Yesterday was Mark’s first day here (after arriving very late the night before). He sees to aligning the optics before close-up can proceed. Then the rest of the day is spent with the half-wave plate rotator (HWPR). HWPR is pronounced “hooper” or “whipper” (in the southern H-before-W manner) depending who you ask. Juan and I […] |
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