So here I am again, or still, it all depends on how you look at it. I had two weeks off before going on my first actual job as a marine tech aboard the R/V Atlantic Explorer. If you ever get a chance to sail on that ship, take it. Every one is super chill, science gets done safely and with sa carefree attitude only find in island cultures. I did that for a week and a half, had a couple days to get things together and move up to Rhode Island.
So here I am working at the EPIC Inner Space Center. The name alone is awesome, and then you realize how many people they are sharing this ground breaking, as it happens science with, and it is fundamentally earth shatteringly awesome. I spent last week taking apart part of the satellite system that controls the motion of the dish. This tiny 8inX8inX4in box with gears in it had gone bad. Without getting into too technical of detail I took it apart, found that faulty part and am now waiting on the parts to come. One company makes the part that goes in this box, the company that made the box is now out of business so there is no one to service them really, so since I have a rather long mechanical background this is not something that is too difficult for me to figure out. Twelve years in the automotive industry is finally paying off in some cool ways.
One of the other major important things I am learning right now is video editing type stuff. See I know so little about it I don’t even have the vocabulary to describe what exactly I am doing with the incoming feed other than saving it to disk, and taking out bad video, which equals editing type stuff in my head. So yeah its been a busy great week.