Well, about a week since last... I seem to be slipping a bit here and I think I can tell that I'm not as focused. The writing seems to help me remember and keep everything together.

Last Friday's work was pretty normal as far as I remember. That evening I met dad over in Jersey for a quick chat, then stopped by my sisters to fix her lawnmower.

Saturday was good. We went out in the morning and ended up sleeping through part of the mid-day. We also put the finish coat on the one desk section.

Sunday went pretty well. Went to church and came home to do some cleaning. Then we went over to my parents to do some "work" for my sisters wedding stuff. Another arguement with dad over nothing and came home.

Monday was a quick, long day. The morning nearly blew by and I got some compression done. The afternoon, I was cutting moisture travellers and sorting out some chaos with raw material that seemed to be missing. I ended up working for 9.5 hr to help out with some custom testing where we looked at fiber orientation under the microscope.

Tuesday was ok, but hot. The exterior chiller was off all day so the indoor chiller was on all the previous evening and all day. it was 77 and noisy inside. I ran two tensiles and shipped out the missing material that I found Monday. Also, I ran some fiber volumes with the new guy.

Today was definately noteworthy. I've been trying to run tensiles all day, but keep getting interrupted. The biggest event is that the torsion system is now going to be a priority to get fatigue running. (Just for the ones of my fans... I designed and assembled the torsion system capable of enormous load and destructive capability using 3000 psi hydraulics) Of everything in the lab and shop, including having specimen fail catastophicly within inches of my nose, this is the only piece of equipment that freightens me.

The torsion system is menacing enough when I had direct control of the valve at my fingertips to run static testing. Fatigue testing needs to run automatically unattended for extended periods of time. I've redesigned the control system from the ground up to correct the original design problems that plagued me before from trusting the system. So, I'm going to take a week and tweek up the software to be compatable with the new electronics and let it rip. This is either going to end beautifly or horribly, but at least then we will know.