This could have ended badly.

Whatever you do, do not type 'c string' into the address bad of
Firefox and hit enter when you share an office with 5 other people.

Oh, and if you do happen to do it, try not to leave it up on your main
monitor for something on the order of 10 minutes while you work on
your netbook.

For the record I was looking for programming aide. Man, the internet
sure is something.

Whatever you do, do not type 'c string' into the firefox address car and hit enter when you are at wor
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Machining Parts

I got my first taste of the machine shop today. We were making brackets for the equipment racks and it all went more or less well, except the two parts we made weren't symmetric, but it worked all the same. I don't know why, but it wrecked me pretty good. 

Tomorrow, I'm going to calibrate the PMTs I'm going to use in the muon asymmetry experiment. 

I love tech support

The entire time I've been dealing with CAEN, they've told me that I have all the proper software to get my TDC working.

Until today.

I got an email from someone I've been corresponding with only to find out that I don't have the up-to-date version of the software. This isn't because I accidently downloaded the wrong version, at the time of writing this, there was only one version available for download. Now, I have V1.01 of some software I got via a special URL whereas if you're going to their website you can only get V1.00 which doesn't have all the libraries you need to get the (supposedly) supported VME cards to work. How the hell is anyone supposed to figure out that the company supplied software, which advertises its module compatibility, <i>isn't compatible</i>. Excuuuuuuse me, CAEN for not having the magic space brain (Zero Punctuation, anyone?) required to figure out that the driver installation process requires a month of back and forth emailing with various employees.

All that said, even having the updated software doesn't get the damn TDC to work.

Almost quitting time. In 15 minutes if my supervisor isn't ready he's going to release me.

VME woes... no more!

I've managed to figure out what was broken on the CAEN QDC I was debugging. In a nutshell, it comes down to the power supply for the card being damaged. We have to send it back to CAEN where they will either repair or replace it.

Time to jump on the TDC, and figure out why I can't save any of the data I've been taking with the CAEN software. 

On another note, I just got this new 20" Dell LCD to replace my office monitor. It's so shiny and pretty.

I just say a guy give his dog a thumbs up.
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I have a presentation to do Thursday on essentially what my Master's project is going to be on in front of the research group. Also, I have to learn how to program in ROOT and get the VME crate working as well. The work is certainly starting to pile up.