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January 20, 2003

Well, we've gotten rid of another permutation-- no science, and bad weather. So that just leaves the fourth one: good science, AND good weather, for tomorrow morning, right?

We were "out for winds" for the entire window today. At one point it was too windy even to launch a weather balloon to see how bad the winds were. The winds around the launcher peaked about 17 m/s (about 35 mph). But now this evening the front has passed, it is colder, and the stars are out. Well, they were out at dinner time but now apparently it is snowing again. Oh well. But, the meteorologist promises us good weather in the morning.

Steve has been here too long, he is running out of things to take pictures of...here we have the cafeteria. Anonymous full-color and written-in- English "directions-for-dummies" (complete with step-by-step color photos!) have appeared in the laundry room, which has tricky Norwegian appliances. And, the engineers are starting to write poetry during the window...see below.

-K

Sersio Haiku

Trapped flux, solar wind;
Millions of miles from day star
snow swirls outside pad
Wind falls, skies clear, yet -
flux twisting, escapes again
dragon naps, ready
When electrons rain down
and ions rush away, then
dragon will fly, catching them

--Kevin Rhoads


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