It’s WAAAAYYY past my time to get parallel to the deck, but I just wanted to let all y’all know that my router came today, and I’m up and online!!
So I’ll see youse early in the AM!
I’ve been running behind since I woke up...go figger!
Glad you got your router! Pat got his last grade today, a B in American History. That gives him two As and two Bs, a successful semester.
He would like to spend the summer playing computer games, except when he’s at camp, but instead, he’ll be doing SAT drills.
Yayyyy, your router came!!!!!!!!!!!
YOU’RE BA-ACK! This calls for a post!
The more so seeing as I haven’t been around since March.
But I have good reasons:
https://als.lbl.gov/
The video featured on this page is the project I’m working on. Several of my co-workers are seen swarming about in this time-lapse sequence. Beyond the slabs of precisely-machined granite — 21 tons, in all — there’s a rectangular platform with a round stage on it. There will be a sample chamber set on this stage, and researchers are going to bombard it with a narrow band of light. The reflected beam will travel through a spectrometer assembly and then out a positionable arm to a detector.
What you see, here, is the supporting structure. The vacuum components, pumps, gauges, valves, controllers, and the rest
will all be mounted onto these supporting frames.
Anyway....LOTTA uber-cool stuff going on in my little corner of the Universe. But I’ll try to poke my nose in a bit more often.