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LIGO day 6
Jan. 15th, 2005 07:04 pmIT's been a busy week at LIGO for me.. taking data, installing electronics, soldering, assembling, testing, spectrum-analysing, programming, etc. The LIGO electronics shop here has all the oscilloscopes, multimeters, spectrum analysers, function generators, power supplies, cables and connectors of every sort, etc etc, to make any reasonable person happy.
This morning I stopped at the Columbia River Exhibition of History, Science, and Technology museum here in Richland, where for $2.50 a retired Hanford worker gave me a two-hour tour of interpretive displays and models of the Hanford Works. I quizzed a guy at work on interesting places to go see around here, and he was full of ideas. I ended up just driving up around Hanford Site to a place where there's a view of the reactors.
I drove out to the farming town of Othello just to have a destination... it started to snow, which at first was novel, but then very quickly I realized that there was a strong possibility that I'd get stuck out in the middle of nowhere. Was quite relieved to get to a larger highway which is plowed. I stopped in at LIGO to take care of a few things... the two people there were gearing up to be snowed in.
Back in Richland now... I have a flight out of here at 9:00 tomorrow.. to Salt Lake City to Chicago to Rochester. Rochester! Yay! Looking forward to seeing people I know again.
This morning I stopped at the Columbia River Exhibition of History, Science, and Technology museum here in Richland, where for $2.50 a retired Hanford worker gave me a two-hour tour of interpretive displays and models of the Hanford Works. I quizzed a guy at work on interesting places to go see around here, and he was full of ideas. I ended up just driving up around Hanford Site to a place where there's a view of the reactors.
I drove out to the farming town of Othello just to have a destination... it started to snow, which at first was novel, but then very quickly I realized that there was a strong possibility that I'd get stuck out in the middle of nowhere. Was quite relieved to get to a larger highway which is plowed. I stopped in at LIGO to take care of a few things... the two people there were gearing up to be snowed in.
Back in Richland now... I have a flight out of here at 9:00 tomorrow.. to Salt Lake City to Chicago to Rochester. Rochester! Yay! Looking forward to seeing people I know again.
