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Saturday, February 12, 2005

Back in Bombay/Mumbai

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...

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