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Today, EB arrived to spend a week here at Skullcrusher Mountain. This makes the fifth person from the States that has visited since the move to Oxford last March. We met at the rail station around lunchtime and I spent a couple of hours showing off my city before heading back to work. By chance, ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
cheshcat ran into EB in the city centre after she got off of work for the day. In the evening, I brought EB to St. Cross church to watch me ring. Then it was back to work again before we all met up at the Eagle and Child for a pub dinner in the famous Rabbit Room that the Inklings (J.R.R. Tolkein, C.S. Lewis, et cetera) used to frequent.
There is something about having a new person in town to remind me to look up at the awe-inspiring sights that make up Oxford. After dinner, I walked down St. Giles to fetch my bicycle and, looking up at the castle-like walls of St. John's College, felt a sense of amazement that I have come to live in such a spectacular place.
In between all this fraternizing and bell ringing, JI and I also managed to open up the K-400 this morning; make adjustments to the SQUIDs, the thermometers, and the apparatus on the experimental plate; and then close it back up again. The turbo-molecular pump is running overnight to evacuate the inner vacuum chamber so that we can start cooling it down again tomorrow. We have never opened and re-closed the cryostat on the same day before. We are getting fast!
All in all, a good day. Now time to finish my evening cup of tea, and then off to bed...
cheshcat ran into EB in the city centre after she got off of work for the day. In the evening, I brought EB to St. Cross church to watch me ring. Then it was back to work again before we all met up at the Eagle and Child for a pub dinner in the famous Rabbit Room that the Inklings (J.R.R. Tolkein, C.S. Lewis, et cetera) used to frequent.There is something about having a new person in town to remind me to look up at the awe-inspiring sights that make up Oxford. After dinner, I walked down St. Giles to fetch my bicycle and, looking up at the castle-like walls of St. John's College, felt a sense of amazement that I have come to live in such a spectacular place.
In between all this fraternizing and bell ringing, JI and I also managed to open up the K-400 this morning; make adjustments to the SQUIDs, the thermometers, and the apparatus on the experimental plate; and then close it back up again. The turbo-molecular pump is running overnight to evacuate the inner vacuum chamber so that we can start cooling it down again tomorrow. We have never opened and re-closed the cryostat on the same day before. We are getting fast!
All in all, a good day. Now time to finish my evening cup of tea, and then off to bed...
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