Oh, give me a home...

[pheloniusfriar]

I find myself typing this as I sit in a room for visiting scientists in an old Victorian farm house just up the road from a herd of bison at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) in Batavia, Illinois. It was a long drive from Ottawa, but split over two days it was quite tolerable and kind of nice to be doing long hauls (slept in Sarnia, Ontario last night and crossed into the USA in the morning). The detector components should arrive Tuesday and, if all goes well (after all the training and safety approvals and re-assembling and testing the equipment we shipped), we should get the 32GeV pion beam turned on Thursday or Friday at the latest. I will try to blog and post photos as I go... we shall see as it's going to be crazy, crazy busy for much of the 3 weeks I will be here. I am exhausted now (and have been for weeks with exams and wrapping up the preparations for all this) and have a busy morning tomorrow (although I can probably nap afterward), so I can't write much now, but suffice it to say that I grew up reading about all the amazing things happening at Fermilab and all the ways the experiments here have changed our understanding of the universe and has provided so many technologies that make our human condition a better one (here's the propaganda if you so desire, I think it's pretty darned cool). Further suffice to say that I've been squeeeeing inside ever since I got here :).

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squeeeeeing inside

[kweenbee]

You might want to release a bit of squee before some bubble up and out during a akward moment ;) Seriously stoked here that you are actually there. I find myself thinking to
myself he is at Fermilab...really there! I hope you are able to get some sleep and maybe even rest while you are there and in the old Victorian home close to wandering bison. :) doc