synchrotronning

I'm back at the ALS. This time the guys I'm with aren't very experienced, so I'm running the night shift (10PM-6AM). I drank some strong black tea, so I'm doing well so far on only a couple hours sleep, but we'll see when it gets closer to sunrise. We had some initial problems with the instrument for most of the day. I guess this weekend a power supply for the sample stage controller blew out. This morning they received a replacement power supply, but it also blew out as soon as it was turned on. So now we're using a spare stage controller, but it's not particularly well-tuned. Basically, the images turn out a little fuzzy, but it's good enough for us to get data.