Uisge Beatha

Today is a big day for us, we are going house hunting. We are looking at places that are close to our church. We can't live close to w...

Yikes, another week without blogging. Unfortunately I've just been too busy. I barely even had time to update the news page for the ma...

That's what I've been for the past two weeks. The last time I went running or worked out was almost two weeks ago. That's goin...

This week I was doing a lot of UNIXy stuff on the computer that is due to run the spectrometer. Since it is not being used right now, it is...

Boy what a week. I'm glad that is over. I felt like I was running behind all the time, and never had enough time to get everything don...

Well, I have officially been erased. I sent my letter in to the department yesterday to say that I was changing jobs and today all record o...

Well officially I guess tomorrow will be my first day at my new job. I say officially because I've kind of been doing a lot of it alrea...

Well we went to Boulder today to get all my final paperwork sqaured away. I had to pick up a computer as well to use temporarily in the fac...

Well, as expected everything came together at the last minute for our visa. So it looks like Monday I'll be officially starting the new...

Well this has been a great weekend off, I've caught up with my chores and still had some time to relax with the family. Today was a lit...

Well if anyone was wondering if it was possible to run 5 miles in 100 degree weather then the answer is yes. If anyone was wondering who wo...

Well starting this week I am officially on call. The system that keeps the magnet up and running is set up to contact me if something goes ...

Today the magnet reached the lambda point. For lower frequency systems, the magnet coils are cooled to superconducting temperature by liqui...

The video of the test quench of the 900 is online now. Check it out!

Friday night I broke into my new bottle of Ardbeg. I had been saving it just in case I got to celebrate a new job. It was all that I had b...

Well, I've been waiting a long time to be able to say this, but now I can. I got the job that I was going for! I will be running the f...

Well as this was originally a scotch blog I think it is fitting to announce that I have finally bought a bottle of Ardbeg 10 yo. This was ...

Well, I made it into Canada okay. I'll be off to get my passport tomorrow and then pretty much everything will be squared away. It...

I'm off to see my dad today. Although it means a trip to Canada, I'm still looking forward to it. Passport Canada really screwed m...