Did you bother tasting that at all?

Monday, when I started writing this post, I was reminded of something a late friend and former coworker once said. We used to go to lunch together frequently, all of us who worked at the Caltech Submillimeter Telescope office in Hilo when it was still on Kilauea Avenue, because it was more or less next door to Cafe 100. Lynn was an electronic technician, a very good one, and I still miss him. A farm kid from Iowa who went into the Navy and became an electronics technician. Later he built himself a trimaran and sailed from the West Coast to Hawaii, missed Hilo by all of about 5 miles and settled here.
One day at lunch I was in a hurry for whatever reason and ate my lunch in about 3 minutes. He said "Did you bother tasting that at all?"

I had such a day last Monday. My office mate of several years Bryan and I went up the mountain to fix some computer problems and run a bunch of tests. At Hale Pohaku, the mid-level facility, where we stop to acclimatize for the altitude I asked one of the cooks about when we were going to have lunch and was told that there was only going to be an early lunch. There went my intention to fix something, get somebody at sea level to change a configuration of computers and get a test going before lunch. We were almost late for the early lunch but got our lunch and ate it fairly quickly and managed to get some stuff done before the person at sea level went to lunch so that I could start my test. We went about the rest of our business up there at UKIRT and got back down to Hilo at a reasonable time. I even got home at a reasonable time, picking up dinner on the way home. As I was both very hungry and very tired I ate that in about 3 minutes as well.

We started having computer problems at one telescope or the other one way or the other 10 days ago. Last night we had the first night at UKIRT when we didn't have any faults in a week. Normally we don't have significant faults more often than every other week at least. We still don't know what happened to cause some of those computer problems, others we're very well aware of.

And as I didn't get around to posting this until now: Congratulations to my supervisor Craig Walther to be RCUH Employee of the Year. He very much deserves that.

To make this a not completely technical post, here's another Etsy Treasury I'm featured in:

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Formal Ball Gown Pr... CelestialDress... $235.00	Original Burgundy W... MyLilSweetieBo... $19.95
The Rose that Lasts... Steampunkitis $14.00	Medusa .. Opaque Ma... ImpulseCo $6.99
Dark Red Garnet Kan... KanzashiHairFl... $22.00	Chunky Macrame Brac... Mikaylove $11.54
Tie sided Harem Pan... Tribalvibe $34.00	Burgundy Queen Anne... anils $40.00
Bridal Clutch Winte... bellafiore2009 $46.00	Burgundy and light ... hilobeads $45.00
NEW Color- Ruffled ... MesBellesFleur... $11.99	Embroidered flower ... Zigettasstyle $38.00
Turkey Burgundy rub... Scarves2012 $14.00	Burgandy little gir... LilShopofCuten... $12.00
Arm Mittens Glove /... gloveshop $25.00	Ruffle scarf ,Pash... SenasShop $18.90

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