Andy’s Los Alamos Blog

So, since my last post I’ve gotten a bit of work done. My Los Alamos Summer School paper is almost done, and my speech for the Student Symposium is coming along. I practiced it today and it was over a half hour… too bad about that fifteen minute time limit. Well, I have until Thursday to figure that out.

I also started my next series of resistor-torturing tests, having improved the setup to accomodate thermal expansion and allow better heat transfer… hopefully I won’t toast any more poor resistors. Actually, if this works, it means we can start the cold testing of PMTs, which would be pretty exciting. I’m hoping we get that started before I have to leave.

Angular PMT testing is waiting on some hardware, and should be up and running next week; I’ll keep you posted.

In other news, I went on a long bike ride today, gearing up for my goal of doing a century (100 miles) when I get home and have the added benefit of 6,000 feet worth of oxygen.Tomorrow I’ll be climbing in El Rito again, practicing lead climbing a bit; I’ll try to get some good pictures.

I hope everyone’s having a good weekend!