Day 7

Day 7

Today was amazing. I woke up at 11.00 because I had to pee, not because I had to get up. It was absolutely amazing.

I woke up, ate breakfast, and then launched into manga. I plowed through Tsubasa chronicles, and it was amazing. Fai went through so much. I knew he was my favourite character for a reason. I can pick the angsty ones, yes.

We had lunch and then let our food digest a bit. After about an hour, we went outside and played soccer. For all of twenty minutes. I'm proud to say that I am not the most out of shape one here. Yes, I am actually one of the more physically fit. Pick that jaw up. Zena had me, and Derek might have given me a run for my money, but I didn't start to get winded until near the end of our little game.

Zena made a tape hand, a new twist on the duct-tape line of products. She made the hand out of clear packing tape. Derek is reading Red Mars. I still haven't caught that mouse. He tripped the trap last night after taking all the food. Now we're sitting here listening to comedy skits from Bill Cosby, Monty Python, and Chris Rock. I've been sitting around making fun icons.

Today has been very relaxing. I need to get up off my behind and get a bath though. My room smells like feet. I left my sweat pea lotion open so hopefully that will help a bit. I'm going to have to burninate all my clothes once I return (Zena drew Trogdor on our whiteboard, and I drew a Japanese cat!).

We're watching Firefly now. It's become a nightly thing. I was a bad girl and started the 'that's what she said' game. My astro family will be proud of me. I'm bringing horrible games to Mars.

Not much to say, we didn't do much today. On the seventh day they rested.

EDT: I have to put this story in because of the frustration it caused. And I'm an idiot. We got the telescope working yesterday and took a few pictures of a far-off mountain ridge to make sure the webcam was functional. When we went back later in the day to actually observe with the telescope, we found that we couldn't see anything through the webcam or the eyepiece.

We naturally thought that there was something wrong with the focus on the telescope, so we started messing around with the mechanized focusing tool attached to the telescope. After about an hour of trying to focus the scope one way and then back the other way, I was getting a little angry. I couldn't figure out what we had done wrong. The webcam had been working earlier, but it apparently had stopped. We also weren't seeing anything through the eyepiece, which was even more puzzling because we should have been able to see at least light coming in, even if it was badly unfocused.

I tried to figure out what we had done wrong when I realized what had happened.

We had forgotten to take the lens cover off the telescope.

Several hours of focusing with the computer, and all it took was the removal of the lens cover. Go me.

Night monkey out

End day 7

EDT: I CAUGHT THE MOUSE! And I shall name it: This Mouse.