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…but, I want to do my log.

Today started out going directly to lunch (I woke up around noon) then out to take a look at the tanks, and see how they’re doing. The tanks were still there, still freezing, etc. so there wasn’t much to do.

After dinner, John Kelley, a guy from Madison, who recently arrived, wanted to go out to SPASE to start hooking up the DOMs (Digital Optical Modules), the detectors that are frozen on the top of the water in the tank. We were out there for about five minutes before he cuts his thumb with a wirecutter. That ended that trip and we headed back to base to get his thumb taken care of. Later, I went back to SPASE to take care of some things that needed to get done, nothing too interesting.

This evening (and into the night, then morning) I worked on a program that I’ll use to analyze the data that I’ve taken from a tank that was deployed in a previous year. I also chatted online with my dad and brother for a while, then called Bartol (Research Institute) to talk to Tom Gaisser, the PI (Primary Investigator) for IceTop. I have some ideas about how to get the current IceTop tank design to freeze during the winter, so that we don’t have to worry about the freeze rate. Eventually I’ll put those ideas in a coherent e-mail.

Today is a nice, bright, breezy summer day at the pole, I think I’ll have my picture taken at The Pole (the thing that sticks out of the ground) today. We’ll see.

Anyway, I just had breakfast, so now I’m going to go to sleep.

Talk to you later.
-Jonathan

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