long hours today
Since I've had a few days recently where my hours doing uni work were a bit lower than I'd like, I was pleased to have hit a pocket of inspriation today, resulting in a total of nine hours of work and only just over 2 of e-mail. Today's progress consisted of re-staring the experiment we started yesterday (it got shut down early yesterday evening due to a problem with the sensor that detects the external (room) temperature). The rest of the day has been spent playing with data and looking at graphs and making pretty pictures. But I'm done now. It is after midnight, and I want to go do yoga and go to sleep (never mind that I've already had nearly nine hours of sleep since Midnight...).
Yesterday, in addition to starting an experiment, was the regularly scheduled SCA meeting. We haven't met for the past couple of weeks, as I was out of town for one of them and clovis_t was out of town for the other. This week it was just the two of us, and the family who hosts the meeting, and a couchsurfer who is staying with us for two nights (he is from way out east in Russia, but is currently an exchange student based in Turku, Finland). So part of the evening was spent explaining to the visitor what we do, and the rest was just hanging out and talking. We haven't heard from any of the Italians who had been keen to help get a shire going here since before I took off for a month of travel. We really ought to poke them, and see if they are still interested, but we've all been busy enough it hasn't happened. Without them there is no point in forming an official shire, as my contract is done in 8 months, and the other family will be done with their contract another 1.5 years thereafter. No point in starting a shire to have it vanish when the Americans leave. If the Italians come back out of the woodwork and want a shire, we are all keen to help, but without them we will just play with other branches, whenever we can afford the travel time and cash.
Yesterday, in addition to starting an experiment, was the regularly scheduled SCA meeting. We haven't met for the past couple of weeks, as I was out of town for one of them and clovis_t was out of town for the other. This week it was just the two of us, and the family who hosts the meeting, and a couchsurfer who is staying with us for two nights (he is from way out east in Russia, but is currently an exchange student based in Turku, Finland). So part of the evening was spent explaining to the visitor what we do, and the rest was just hanging out and talking. We haven't heard from any of the Italians who had been keen to help get a shire going here since before I took off for a month of travel. We really ought to poke them, and see if they are still interested, but we've all been busy enough it hasn't happened. Without them there is no point in forming an official shire, as my contract is done in 8 months, and the other family will be done with their contract another 1.5 years thereafter. No point in starting a shire to have it vanish when the Americans leave. If the Italians come back out of the woodwork and want a shire, we are all keen to help, but without them we will just play with other branches, whenever we can afford the travel time and cash.