Well the trip to Goa was ace (took lots and lots of photos which I'll post soon). It was great to see CJ and Taz again as well as sit on a beach and sun myself :)
The train journey back was pretty horrible, vomiting and diarrhea, but I got back in one piece (leaving the contents of my stomache along the way) and slept it off. Have since been a bit more careful about food and am feeling much much better. Also now have my laptop working so have some music to listen to at night. Been thinking about deleting my linux partitions but think I'll wait till I'm back in Bristol and have the XP cd's to hand - I've got a nasty feeling I'd screw up the MBR if I did it here.
Since getting back I've been a bit more active with work. I now have a pretty good idea what I need to do wrt the Invisible Higgs code, a lot of the physics is still above me but I'll get there. I've also started to write my talk for the Dublin IOP. My last talk (at CMSUK) was a bit crap so I'm hoping to get this properly prepared in advance.
Trying to get the last of the MadGraph samples done today, then I can concentrate on getting my ORCA/ROOT analysis code up and running. I still have a few questions and ideas I need to thrash out (which I'll note down in my ORCA blog) but I think I'm pretty much on the right track at least.
Not heard from Greg since I got out here so assuming he's not read thesis (after making a fuss about it at CMSUK). Need to think of a polite way to give him a kick up the arse when I get back...
Saturday, February 12, 2005
Tuesday, February 01, 2005
Evening
Last night I went to bed having completed a little achievement. There really is no feeling greater than doing something to improve your surroundings just before going to bed. I swapped lightbulbs between two lamps so the one over my bed works. Very satisfying.
Today has been pretty busy. Woke up at 8 had breakfast and a shower then came onto TIFR to check email to see if I'd got anything from CJ and Tara. I hadn't. Then went into town to sort out their accomodation. Had a bit of a wander around, nothing major. Some cool buildings in that part of town, aswell as slums. Only got accosted 4 times, which I thought was good going. Missed the bus so took a cab back here. Unfortuneatly the driver didn't know where here was. I was lost so couldn't direct him, and thought perhaps it was a language thing (I know how much I mumble) so wrote down TIFR and its address on some paper (I luckily had). He gets out the cab and asks this bloke for directions! And then charges me full fare! Good to see cabbies are the same the world over.
This evening, after some serious code hacking, my eyes were squares so I went for a walk along the Sea wall. The sun was setting and the sky looked like rust. Bats were flying about catching things. There are these cool garden lights along the wall which I really like - going to take a photo later. It was nice. The view across the bay is pretty cool too, especially at night. In the day you can see that some of the buildings are falling down, but at night the sky line is as impressive as any I've seen. You can also see the pollution, I realised that it was actually bloking out the sunset a little.
Right and now back to work! Ha ha!
Today has been pretty busy. Woke up at 8 had breakfast and a shower then came onto TIFR to check email to see if I'd got anything from CJ and Tara. I hadn't. Then went into town to sort out their accomodation. Had a bit of a wander around, nothing major. Some cool buildings in that part of town, aswell as slums. Only got accosted 4 times, which I thought was good going. Missed the bus so took a cab back here. Unfortuneatly the driver didn't know where here was. I was lost so couldn't direct him, and thought perhaps it was a language thing (I know how much I mumble) so wrote down TIFR and its address on some paper (I luckily had). He gets out the cab and asks this bloke for directions! And then charges me full fare! Good to see cabbies are the same the world over.
This evening, after some serious code hacking, my eyes were squares so I went for a walk along the Sea wall. The sun was setting and the sky looked like rust. Bats were flying about catching things. There are these cool garden lights along the wall which I really like - going to take a photo later. It was nice. The view across the bay is pretty cool too, especially at night. In the day you can see that some of the buildings are falling down, but at night the sky line is as impressive as any I've seen. You can also see the pollution, I realised that it was actually bloking out the sunset a little.
Right and now back to work! Ha ha!
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