It’s been a pretty interesting couple of days. On Wednesday, I (finally) took Rad(iation) Worker training, and Thursday morning took the practical exam, for which I actually had to dress up in a low-level radiation suit. It was actually pretty fun, even at 7:15 am. After the practical, I went to the annual Student-Mentor picnic. Free food (and cookies!), my picture in one of the crazy armored security trucks (maybe I’ll post that… maybe.), and of course bonding with the officemates. An all around good time. Following this, I returned to work, wrote up my abstract for the Student Symposium, a yearly opportunity for students to present their work, where I’ll be giving a short talk. I started my resistor testing on Tuesday per the last post, and apparently destroyed the first one I tested. I believe the problem was that without air to ventilate them, resistors can get really hot really fast. I’m working on ways to improve my methods.
Between more resistor testing, my angular PMT testing (and optical bench improvements), more simulations, preparing a talk, and writing a research paper, I should be keeping pretty busy. Which is good for you, because I’ll have a lot to talk about.
In other news, I continue to do neat non-work things. Last night I went climbing at the YMCA (testing out my new climbing harness and gear!). Looks like I’ll be doing a lot of climbing in the coming days, probably a bit this weekend. I’m also considering biking up the ski hill again; it’s now “monsoon season,” during which it rains every afternoon, so most outdoor activities must be confined to mornings 
. Hopefully people will want to hike somewhere this weekend as well; I wouldn’t mind going to Bandalier again…
Cheers, Andy
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