Another Late Night

I have been working pretty late nights lately (when I am not out drinking late nights that is). And then I come home after midnight and I start doing chores and cooking amd making all sorts of noises that probably keep my house-mate up. But then he gets up at 5am and Skype-s with his g-friend who's on the other side of the world and wakes me up. So I guess we are even.

Work is coming along. But so is frustration. I am THAT close to finishing my main data analysis which involves looking at every single one of my 20,000 spectra. I have less than 1,000 left. If I finish 4 of the 6 files I will be VERY happy. It is mind numbing but I want it to be over that bad, I will spend the whole day tomorrow doing it. I have promised myself I will get a belly-button piercing when I am done with my data reduction and analysis. I have spend a year working on it! I kind-a need a physical memento of the experience. Other than the hunch I mean. I am afraid that will have to wait for a little longer though. I have this teeny dataset I also have to get re-reduced and that may take a while to figure out. I need to flux it, format it, cross-correlate it and look at every single one of the ~900 spectra. I really shouldn't be complaining, though I was hoping I wouldn't have to do that. Patience, my dear, patience.

My computer is crunching numbers at an unprecedented rate, extracting sky spectra like you wouldn't believe it. I even managed to kill my task bar tonight trying to speed it up. Well, I did speed it up, but the gam_server does actually do something! My Adviser agreed I can get a small upgrade. Yay!

Tasks for tomorrow: Finish the analysis for the 4 big and easy files. Write the nth nearest neighbor algorithm. Do more sky-subtractions. Get a ticket for the burlesque. Have a fun BBQ.