Well I haven't put a post up in a while... been too discouraged. Went back to Denver on 7/31, then back out on the road on 8/10. Long day on Monday too... Had to get up at 3:45 to make my 6:15am flight. I cut it way too close at check-in too. Probably had 1 or 2 minutes before they did the 45 min cutoff. Walked to the gate and walked right onto the plane pretty much.
Flew to Dulles and then caught a flight to Richmond an hour later. Got to Richmond about 2pm local time and then drove 4 hours to Hillsville, VA... Here's map.
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Needless to say it was a long day. And it was like a 100 degrees in Richmond again...
Yesterday we started collecting, but then we got an error with our roughness laser system. The same error for which we had driven to Richmond at the end of our last trip. The same error that we were supposed to have gotten fixed. Frustration is pretty much part of the job description for me.
Turned out to be an issue with one of our timing cards in the roughness computer. We had spares but they didn't work with the cable we had. So we had to get a cable overnighted from Canada to Hillsville. Got this afternoon at about 230pm and started working immediately.
Got a good amount done for only working about 4 hours. Low sun glare only stopped us at about 645pm.
Bad news from today is that I've gotten sick. Head cold, sore throat, achy... Speaking of achy... Saw a sweet poster of Mr. Achy Breaky himself at the restaurant we went to. Wasn't this one, but this one is sweet.
Went and bought some meds today for my sickness. Didn't realize I bought Ibuprofen PM until after I had popped 2 of them at noon. It was a sleepy afternoon, hopefully I'll be able to sleep, but that's not usually an issue for me.
Last thing from today... After I got out of the shower this morning, I noticed I have a message on my mirror which only shows up when it's fogged up. "I'm watching you!" I mean I guess it's kinda freaky, but not really... funny more than anything. Tried to take a photo with of it, but the bathroom fogginess didn't work out so well.
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