Friday, June 11, 2021
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My last post was a bit rushed and late; I hope this post will be more substantial.
I started off the week in New Orleans. Little sleep the 2 nights before and another 12 hours of driving ahead of me.
I climbed into my car with my friend and my cat and we hit the road.
The drive went without a hitch, minus the torrential rain that blinded all the drivers for about 10 minutes.
Thinking back at that 12+ hour drive makes me exhausted so I will leave much of the details out.
Productivity at work has been at a crawl all week.
We (Karthik and I) are supposed to be investigating some scanning probe properties on COMSOL but are currently still working out things with IT to get us setup.
So far the supervisors (Joe and Yaw) have given us some soft ball work, modeling some microinterface as a lumped circuit model with the goal of finding a circuit model that exhibits some changes in resonant frequency with changes in resistivity.
So far no luck as expected but Joe said that he'll suggest some circuit models to try.
Besides some mock lumped circuit modeling I tried to install COMSOL onto my local machine but keep running into some licensing trouble ...
IT and Joe mentioned I will need to create an account on my Windows machine that matches my NIST account; but which one? It seems my NIST email doesn't work sooo might try my other username
I am also in the works to get a keyfile for remote working into either Joe or Yaw's workstation.
I think if I wait for the keyfile I won't hear back from IT until later next week so I think I am going to go the route of installing COMSOL on my local machine
Not sure how much else I need to complete. I think it might be worth summarizing what I have been reading for the supply chain project.
Besides work stuff, here in Florida it has been HOT and sunny
My fiance and I often go to the beach and enjoy being reunited after a few months apart
Her family spoils me with Cuban food and treats
I've watched a lot of the susets
My goal for this summer is to play with a live band at a bar; I'm an avid percussionist and would love to play congas for a Salsa band..
Or maybe just play my drums a little more this summer.
I missed a few SPS meeting this week because I was still unpacking and playing catch up with my responsibilities
This coming week I should be back on the ball and attending all meetings
More to come over the weekend!
Roberto Gauna