the return

[minouette]

So after a grueling week fighting equipment and trying to avoid gales at sea, we returned to port the day before yesterday. We had hoped to go back out, but that was not to be. We packed up equipment for over a day. KS and KC left yesterday, CS left early this morning. My noon we had packed all our equipment in trunks and loaded it on palettes and

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[reqbat]

[minouette]

Indeed. I would like to gong this fieldseason... this trip cannot be on the show... it stinks.

Now I am home in Toronto, just in time for sweltering weather and a gargage strike.

[petermarcus]

Seems like nature didn't want you to unlock her secrets this trip... Any interesting science?

[minouette]

We learned a few things... sadly much of our time was spent debugging with electrodes in a garbage bin of salt water. Buying ship time and doing this at the pier is an insanely expensive way to do some low tech experiments with high tech equipment. But the parts of the system we were able to deploy were made to work.

[fenris_lorsrai]

We had hail warnings on this side of the state, to go with the tornado. Because that's just what you what, an ice filled tornado!

I swear to you that this is NOT normal weather for New England in June. It is completely and totally screwed up this year.

[minouette]

You are not the only person to swear this to me, I assure you!
It was rather spectacular.