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Marking a milestone
Aug. 26th, 2015 07:54 pmAfter a last heroic push yesterday, including a morning devote to tracking down a particularly annoying performance problem in a magnetohydrodynamics code, we passed a particularly significant operational milestone. This morning I arrived expecting to find all manner of problems, only to find that it had all gone through extremely smoothly.
To celebrate, we all went to the pub at lunchtime where one of the senior people bought everyone a round of drinks and FB bought a couple of bottles of champagne to mark the end of the beginning:
The event was actually good fun, helped no doubt by an unspoken decision on the part of us helots to split ourselves off on to a separate table, leaving the Spartans to hobnob among themselves. There were a couple of nice speeches thanking everyone for the contributions before our leaders returned to work leaving the rest of us to loaf around for another hour enjoying ourselves.
In hindsight, the decision to remain outside may not have been all that prudent on my part: I spent a good deal of the afternoon worrying that I was getting sunburnt; I left confident that damage had been done; and, sure enough, an inspection of myself in the mirror this evening reveals a suspiciously pink forehead. I just hope it isn't going to get much worse...
To celebrate, we all went to the pub at lunchtime where one of the senior people bought everyone a round of drinks and FB bought a couple of bottles of champagne to mark the end of the beginning:
The event was actually good fun, helped no doubt by an unspoken decision on the part of us helots to split ourselves off on to a separate table, leaving the Spartans to hobnob among themselves. There were a couple of nice speeches thanking everyone for the contributions before our leaders returned to work leaving the rest of us to loaf around for another hour enjoying ourselves.
In hindsight, the decision to remain outside may not have been all that prudent on my part: I spent a good deal of the afternoon worrying that I was getting sunburnt; I left confident that damage had been done; and, sure enough, an inspection of myself in the mirror this evening reveals a suspiciously pink forehead. I just hope it isn't going to get much worse...
