Yesterday, Kailash came in with the second disk and admin privileges for his laptop so that writing to the disk will work fine. Then Scott of the WFS group discovered that pixels with values of 20000 were being marked as saturated. After a bit of investigation, it was found that a gain level of 4 was hard coded into the DHAS. It was fixed and all subsequent data was processed properly. This left all the previous data to be reprocessed with the proper gain. We created a list of the zip files and I edited it to give the exposure number of the first exposure in the series of three. The first is supposed to be the background and it should be subtracted from the second and third exposures. John wrote a wrapper to read this list file and process the data according to the "first" exposure I identified in the list file. I handed off the list to John and then left for dinner with Karl and Chad.
Karl wanted to go to the Faultline Brewery in Sunnyvale. Chad and I were game, since we both wanted to leave for the day and those that were staying to work had ordered in Thai food. We convinced Karl to disassemble his bicycle and drive, since both Chad and I have dinky little Hyundai Accent rental cars. Karl was accommodating. It took probably 20 minutes or more to get there at 7 PM, since traffic on the 101 was not moving very quickly. When we arrived, we had a wait of 45 minutes for a table, so we decided to sit in the bar. It turned out to be ladies' night and my margarita was only $3. The bar was slow in making our drinks and apparently Karl was given the wrong beer. We got called to a table in what seemed more like 20 minutes. We ordered and Karl's and my dinners came in a reasonable time, but Chad's dinner got forgotten. Karl and I waited for Chad to get his food, even though he had said we could start. It took all three of us to stare down the waitress to get her attention. She finally showed up with Chad's food, after some time. We must have waited 15 minutes after Karl's and my food arrived. The place was busy, but this was a bit much. When we got the check, we noticed that Karl's incorrect beer was charged and my second margarita was $7. Apparently, Ladies' Night is only available in the bar. If she would have told me that, I would have gotten up and walked the 20 feet to the bar area to get my second one. Karl drove us back to Lockheed, since our rental cars were there. I headed straight back to my hotel.
When I got to the hotel, I noticed a lot of noise in the street. It sounded like jack hammering. I put things away and went right to bed. The noise continued. I must have dosed off, but at 11:25 I woke up to continued noise. I got up and called the front desk. I asked if the city of Palo Alto had a curfew for noise. The desk clerk said yes, it did. I complained about the noise and the clerk apologized and offered to have me switch rooms to one further away from the street. Not at that hour! He continued to tell me that the city was fixing a broken water pipe, since half of the city didn't have water. I thanked him for the information and he apologized again for the disruption. I went back to bed. It seemed not too long after that that the noise stopped. I wonder if the hotel called the city or the police to complain or if they just finished their work. When I got up this morning, I noticed the faucet sputtered several times. I was happy to see that the water was at least clear and not muddy or dirty.
When I came in this morning, John said that it had run fine, but we needed to edit a few lines. Some of the images identified weren't actually the best choices for processing. Christopher and John had marked up a printed copy of the list. John packed up to leave and Christopher made the necessary changes to the list file. We started it running. When it was done, we copied the data to Scott's bigger disk and gave them the data. After that was complete, Chad and I used the backup instructions that I copied into my notebook to make a copy of all of yesterday's data on the external disk. That backup directory was copied to the external drive, the drive moved to the networked terminal, the backup directory copied to the networked terminal's internal drive, and then copied across the network to our own external drive connected to my laptop.
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