Wed/Thur - HIGH MAGNIFICATION! Wednesday got to experience, after observing, using the SEM - Scanning Electron Microscope. Thursday, during second visit to watch on the TEM, Tranmission Electron Microscope, also got to use it to explore some material and acquire images. I had used the same scope back in 1989-1990 while I was a grad student at Texas A&M. The current one is hooked up to computers for the imaging and control, back then everything was manual. Thursday I learned about a new program called ORB. Please go to WWW.ORB.COM if you have a lot of multimedia on your machine.
Friday - was group meeting and our first $$$ - Stipend CHECK! Instead of paper, I got permission to put together a huge powerpoint, so be starting that soon.
Saturday - put Land Rover in for brakes, they found some other minor issues, so bill will be between $700-800, thank goodness for stipend checks. Ain't that the way it always goes, as soon as you get extra money, it gets spent for you! Sylvia and I went to Babins for father's day dinner. Unfortunately they didn't have the GOLDEN TILE fish I learned to LOVE! Messed up my TV computer, had to reinstall windows, and I picked the destructive instead of reconstructuve method - OOPS!
Next Tuesday is our two year anniversary. We got gifts over the last few days. I received a Nvidia Gforce 5500 video card and she received a James Avery pendant and chain.
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