Sham and I headed over to the 0PAL lab
just after supper to get (re)acquainted with the lab, and to see
whether we could get anything done in preparation for the next full
day's work. This time, luckily, there was a) distilled water whose
containers had not frozen themselves to the floor, b) a good sky for
lidaring, c) no snow on our hatch (Thanks, Pierre and Mike!). The lab was in
great shape, so after checking things out, we jumped right in.
We got the green laser firing out of
the hatch, launched the data acquisition program, and (miracle of
miracles) went to sleep while the lidar took care of running itself.
We managed to get the emails sent by the lidar's alarm program (in
case we need to shut down for snow or wind) to make audible alarms
when they arrived in our inboxes. Sounds low-tech and like it should
not be hard (especially if you're used to email on a phone... which I
am not!), but is surprisingly hard to do on some Certain Brands of
Laptop. Even when they have built-in features for the purpose. In any
event, without the audible feature, the lidar operator has to wake up
every so often and check on things. With the audio... well, it's
easier. A Fancy Tablet worked great for me, and Sham's phone seems to
be working for her.
In the morning, we woke up to a 9-hour
data set in our visible channels.
This counts as a successful bonus lab
day!
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