Originally the plan was I would be taking this cruise off and getting a little down time in my favorite city in the world Seattle Washington. But as luck would have it things went from okay to bad in a couple of days. I am still aboard the R/V Atlantis, which now feels more like home than anything. I am currently incharge of running a satellite van that is feeding the world live high definition streaming video and audio from the ship. So anytime you would like you can log on to http://explorationnow.org/atlantis/ and see what is going on in the main science lab or on the bottom of the ocean using JASON cams. Initially it was supposed to be just me realligning a satellite dish whenever the resolver could not reaquire the satellite, but as so few things go as planned my job has become much more involved. Today our first live day with me at the helm all the networks started crashing without me having changed a thing. Turns out we have a problem with the DHCP assigning portion of our router, which granted can be fixed easily enough on land, or with a few simple steps, but when you can’t disrupt what is going out to the world and people are watching you have to work around the problem quickly. So I had to do some back door networking tricks that before today I never knew even existed. I wish I could explain to you everything that I managed to do, but I was doing it in such a hurry that I don’t even remember each step I took to get it all running again.I would write more but my brain is completely drained of any thoughts that are cogent beyond “WHAT JUST HAPPENED?” But I have decently high speed internet going and the show went on without a hitch. WIN FOR INTERNS!!!! We really can fix problems and keep things going when put to the test. This was quite possibly the fasted 12 hour shift of this six month period, and it isn’t over until I can reset some routers and reassign some IP addresses to finish the fixes which will have to wait until around 11pm pst.