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kareinaWork has been going better--I think we may now have decent settings for the laser ablation to get good results on pyrite. I did another test of them today, and tomorrow I can check to see if it worked. I had planned to do that test on Monday, but we were out of argon gas for the ICP-MS, so I had to wait till she got the new tanks hooked up (which was delayed due to issues beyond her control). So in the meantime I have started a paper. Those of you who have me on FB may have seen my request for suggestions for a good word for the small peaks that appear in the bottoms of some of our craters. I couldn't use the word "peaks" for them, since that word is usually used by people describing the graphs of ICP-MS data to speak of the places where there is high signal, and talking about the lead-peak on the graph at the same time as I spoke of the galena peak in the crater could get confusing, never mind that they are both representations of the same phenomena. But my Knight came through with a perfect suggestion "summits" (also the name of the Principality in which he and I lived when I was living with him). So now it will be clear when I am speaking of the composition graphs, and when of the physical mound of stuff in the bottom of the crater. I sent my colleagues an early draft of the paper today--so far just the description of the experiment and what we saw--no introduction or discussion, but with a bunch of figures to support the text, and Glenn said that he was impressed at my fast turn around from our discussing the idea on Monday to giving them this bit today. Nice to get the feedback, because I felt like it was taking too long. As one does.
Last night's gymnastics was much fun, and, as always, inpsiring. One of the parquour boys, showing off, went from a handstand to slowly, and carefully bending only at the shoulders to lower his (very straight and controlled) body from upright, through 45 degrees, and, finally with his arms bent and elbows tucked into his belly as for yoga peacock pose, but with his body out horizontal with the ground. Then, he pushed himself back up into handstand. I so want to be able to do things like this. The problem with dreaming big is that I am not noticing the small improvements I *am* making. Like today, while waiting for the plasma to warm up I went to the gym and practiced handstands on the mat, and while I didn't hold them for long, I did hold them for way longer than I used to before putting my feet back down. A few times, instead of putting my feet down I would take a couple of steps on my hands to correct balance and then pause, briefly, before putting my feet down. Compared to where I was before I started training for this, it is so far. Compared to where I want to be it is such a baby step.
I paused while typing the last paragraph to look up the name of the yoga pose I was thinking of, and, let me tell you, while I had already done my yoga for the day before typing this, I am inspired to go back and do some more. I may not be able to do peacock pose yet, but I will get there...
Last night's gymnastics was much fun, and, as always, inpsiring. One of the parquour boys, showing off, went from a handstand to slowly, and carefully bending only at the shoulders to lower his (very straight and controlled) body from upright, through 45 degrees, and, finally with his arms bent and elbows tucked into his belly as for yoga peacock pose, but with his body out horizontal with the ground. Then, he pushed himself back up into handstand. I so want to be able to do things like this. The problem with dreaming big is that I am not noticing the small improvements I *am* making. Like today, while waiting for the plasma to warm up I went to the gym and practiced handstands on the mat, and while I didn't hold them for long, I did hold them for way longer than I used to before putting my feet back down. A few times, instead of putting my feet down I would take a couple of steps on my hands to correct balance and then pause, briefly, before putting my feet down. Compared to where I was before I started training for this, it is so far. Compared to where I want to be it is such a baby step.
I paused while typing the last paragraph to look up the name of the yoga pose I was thinking of, and, let me tell you, while I had already done my yoga for the day before typing this, I am inspired to go back and do some more. I may not be able to do peacock pose yet, but I will get there...