Saturday, January 15, 2011

Eighth Day: Another Short Day

Today was yet another short, relaxing day. We had a couple hours of free time to work on data before leaving to tour the University of Arizona's Center for Creative Photography and visit Starizona, a small astronomy/telescope store. Mostly we just admired the telescopes, since all but the smallest are both way too expensive and too hard to get home. The drive there and back was "entertaining", with those of us in the Charger trying to keep up with all the (illegal) U-turns taken at mach 3 and zooming through about a half-dozen yellow lights so as to not get left behind. We did stay safe and caught back up when we did get stuck at a light, but it was an interesting drive none the less.

There are a few rabid Packers fans among us, Prof. Arion included, and they insisted on getting back before the game tonight starts, so we have the rest of the night off to work with the data and continue recovering from the all-nighters at Kuiper. My computer appears to be doing better, but it remains to be seen how it will handle crunching all our files. My apologies for not having any pictures to post, but we weren't allowed to take any at the CCP and nothing else really struck me as photo-worthy today. I may see how sunset looks tonight and post a couple later, but we'll see how it goes.

Jenny

3 comments:

  1. I had the same problem today concerning pictures. There were so many beautiful prints, I would have loved to snap a picture of a few. I instead tried to find a book outside to purchase, but none of them had the pictures I wanted to share with friends / family.

    Still, all in all, a good day. Just not a photogenic one. Something that will undoubtibly be fixed with tomorrows hike.

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  2. Just gonna say, the U turns were not illegal...

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  3. I really loved the pictures at the photography building.

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