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Since the kidlets have been unable to get to sleep at night after so many Christmas late nights (grrrrrrr!), I decided to take them for a wander in the weather yesterday to tire them out!
The wind had been howling and the rain battering the windows since the early hours but, by the time I dragged them out of bed, it was pretty calm and brightening up.
By lunchtime, the sun was shining so I thought, this will be quite enjoyable - up the Lickey Hills, bracing wind in our hair etc :)
However, as we got into the car to go over to Beacon Hill to embrace the wind, there was a hailstorm! The car was covered in a sheet of little icy balls.
Once we reached the Beacon, the hail stopped - at least until we got out of the car! ;)
It was fab up there! Battered by the wind, belted by hail, leaping a giant puddle to gain access to "the castle" (aside from Enso who was sensibly sporting wellingtons!), watching as the hail storms scattered across the city before us, broken by glimpses of blue sky and pinpoints on sun rays.
We only had one accident - Kizzie (10) slipped over pretty much right away so had a muddy bum!! I managed not to let any of them get blown over the edge!
Ace.
<3 the good old British weather! :)
Managed to take just a couple of photos without my iPhone being killed by the hail!
Second rev of the activated charcoal getter for Sitelle.
The first revision of the getter, a double-sided, double-chambered design based roughly off the GL Scientific getter for the Polycold PCC cold head, wound up not fitting in the cryostat. The flex for the feed-through, which was already pretty close to the getter in the original design, wound up being longer than expected, and caused a thermal short. As an interim measure we machined off the lower chamber of one of the getters so we could get back on task.
But I still had to design a new one. I had all kinds of grand schemes of making another CNC-based design. But we hit a schedule crunch, and the CNC mill at work was busy cranking out new filter frames for another instrument. Sooo...
I designed this one to be made on conventional hand-cranked machines. The top and bottom plate are 2mm 6061 aluminum. The sides are 0.010" thick x 1" wide high purity copper strip. The lower plate has three 1mmx1mm grooves cut in it to take the copper strips. The top plate has a recess to match the outer and inner groove, and has a bunch of holes drilled through it to let gas pass. The three strips were coated with Stycast resin, and the cavity was filled with activated charcoal. The charcoal is capped with a 1-micron glass filter, and then with the top plate. The whole mess is sealed on all four seams with Stycast.
In the end I think this was a better design than the original, even though the original won hands-down on looks, and this one literally cannot be serviced. There's more volume for getter material in this one, so the getter has more overall capacity, even if the pump speed is a little lower because of the smaller aperture. Also, the materials are much thinner than in the original design, so this getter should cool down faster than the original. That helps to ensure that it starts pumping well before the rest of the camera gets cold enough to condense water vapor.
I won't be able to test the performance of this getter until next week.
OK, important to remember: my camera was still on its absolutely widest setting here - 18mm, according to EXIF. So if I'm this close, this should tell you something. It's tough to tell how close underwater, but it felt like four inches. In reality, probably a foot.
That fish? Eating algae off his back.
this was not my intended post for the day, but I posted it due to a few (offline) comments. I won't be publishing it to any groups (not at first, at least), so only contacts & stream visitors get to see it. The real photo for today is still to come...
لا تؤمن بمقولة : ان الفرصة لا تأتي مرتين !
الفرص المسُخره لك حتماً ستأتيك ..
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عام مليئ بالفرص السعيده / الطيبه والانيقه
لكل من عبر هُنا وهُناك .. ولكل من رحل .. . !
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I went to visit Chicago. To make life easier my dear friend Emily gave me one set of the keys to her home. I left Chicago with these keys still in my pocket. I met Emily back in Cleveland (she had to comeback for various reasons) and I entirely forgot that I had her keys in my pocket. So, they still had to be returned. But at this point it had taken so long that simply mailing them was far to boring an option. So I made this card.
I submit this as the cutest way forgotten keys have ever been returned.
Watch the card in action - www.vimeo.com/7439368
Of course you do but what is it?
Flickr Lounge - Weekly Theme (Week 47) ~ What Am I? ....
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Chad and Lindsay are getting married! Lindsay is a super cute pinup model beauty. Chad just graduated from police academy and is starting with LAPD. We just HAD to have some dress-up fun for their engagement photos :)
Los Angeles Wedding Photography
strobist info:
pop up flash with diffuser as trigger @ 1/60
sb-900 with diffuser @ 1/25 camera right
Ritchie Burdett fires home the opening goal in Epworth Town Colts' 7-1 Carrside Playing Fields victory over Central Midlands League Division One North rivals Selston reserves. Striker Burdett netted in the ninth minute then added three more. Colts, newcomers to the Central Midlands League for the 2019-20 season, had the points in the bag after just 23 minutes, when they led 3-0.
Match statistics
Epworth Town Colts versus Selston reserves
Central Midlands League, Division One North (2pm)
Admission: free. Programme: £1.50 (12 pages). Attendance: 26. Epworth Town Colts 7-1 Selston reserves (half-time 4-0). Scoring sequence: 1-0 (9mins); 2-0 (11mins, penalty); 3-0 (23mins); 4-0 (33 mins); 5-0 (57mins); 6-0 (59mins); 6-1 (80mins); 7-1 (89 mins). Referee: Adrian Seward.
Les Gets is a small, friendly resort that offers a good mix of slopes in its own right. However, Les Gets is part of the Portes du Soleil ski area (in the Haute Savoie region) which is huge. This will keep everyone happy and you can village hop for lunch. In total, there are over 650 km of piste to explore. However, it must be noted that this area lies on the fringe of the Alps at a lower elevation than most resorts. As a consequence, snow cannot be guaranteed and the season is somewhat shorter. The town is partly car free and traditional in style. There are plenty of places to eat and drink and the party can continue late into the night, if desired. Les Gets has 66 groomed trails that can be accessed by using the 52 lifts; 5 of these are gondolas. There is a terrain park at Les Gets and cross country skiing over 12 kms.
Corrosif getting a tattoo done in my house by Dan, my girlfriends brother, who has just finished a "Learn to Tattoo" course.
It turned out great.