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As I was typing, I heard POP, POP which I recognized as high voltage
sparks and went into the other room where my technician was working on
an electron microscope. We spent a few minutes figuring where a cable
had broken down and decided to make a teflon bushing to go around it,
fun, fun. At the same time, I am waiting for a sputter system to pump
down so I can make an entirely new type of x-ray optic. I am excited
every morning when I come to work. Can lawyers say that?

Interesting aside... I used to work for a EM company in the valley in
the early 80s. We had to go to UC Bezerkeley one day to figure out
what was wrong with one of the installed scopes. Turned out some idiot
grad student put a small tree frog in it to have a look. You can
imagine the results. Another time, there was a small fruit fly that
seemed to be destroying crops... called the Med Fly. The company was
asked to take some pictures of one in one of our scopes. That was
cool. Made the first page of the Mercury News. Interesting place to
work.




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