Yesterday was Jon’s brithday, so Anne planned a surprise water balloon battle for when he and the night shift arrived. And a special meal. We divided into teams by shift, and identified ourselves with bandanas: red for the early shift, camo for the day shift, and stars for the night shift.
Laika joined the red team. She also got a new (replacement) toy, so I followed her with a camera for a while. After playing with her myself.
The festivities were interrupted when Barth took a nasty fall (while strafing Sean with water balloons). He dislocated his shoulder, getting hurt a lot, but is expected to eventually make a full recovery.
Johanna modifies some boxes
Pinhole sun sensors
Sensing the sun
Natalie is testing the PSSes
A crack in the door proved insufficient
Outside, they still didn't quite work right
Not until later, at leaest
Team Camo. Modeled by Jamil
The day shift's colours
Yes, those are safety goggles
More of Team Camo
Laika's on Team Red (the early shift)
With her favourite people: Anne, Johanna, and myself
Eyed dubiously
Natalie demonstrates alternate styles
Barth tries too
More alternate styles
Work proceeds
Now with bandanas, which makes it more fun?
Don
Team Camo
Anne returns with a modified FTS cover
Team Red
Laika's third frisbee (the previous two being chewed to bits)
She plays a game not entirely dissimilar to fetch
She truly enjoys these
Far more than any other toy we've tried
Running away
A key part of whatever game she thinks she's playing
Retrieved
Sasha
Team Camo. Being harrassed by a camera. Because she's the enemy
Cold load for the FTS
A styrofoam box, glued shut, full of mm-wave absorber, with a hole for liquid nitrogen
Nitrogen filling funnel
Courtesy of tractor supply store
Making the cold load cold
Another, potentially cold, load
Covering the front of a telescope, for an optical efficiency test
FTS cover is still shiny
Sean's reflection agrees
Jamil fills water balloons
Crescent moon and Venus
Attempting to blow out sparklers
Atop the brownies for dessert
Night shift gets stars for their colour
Cold load filling, on Theo
Jon, the birthday boy
Aftermath: injured Barth
He took a bad fall, dislocated his shoulder, and got some nasty scrapes
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