I didn't get all 40 hours of work done, but with intense efforts on Saturday, Sunday, and Monday, I got the machines needed for Tuesday set up and some more besides. I still have a bunch more work to do, but nothing critical.
On Friday, we got the network minimally functional and I set up an assembly line to update laptops. On Saturday, I had three drives that I could use to wipe a laptop and install a stripped down image. Reboot, launch the radmind script and, in about half an hour, the laptop was ready to go. In between, I played some SC with Phil and watched episodes of Natsume Yujincho. I find them charming and heartwarming. I got most of the laptops done.
On Sunday, I came in to finish up the laptops and work on the Kodak Molecular Imaging software. I built a transcript of the package and found that the ownerships were wrong on the server, so I was stuck. I sent a note to the technical staff and used the excuse to take off to see Coraline in 3D with Charlie and Lucy.
On Monday, I opened up the BCRC, made sure things were still working in Morrill, and headed over to the ISB. In between working on the lab, I met with a visiting faculty member from Ohio State who is here observing our use of instructional technologies. I helped him get to Zane's genetics class and then spoke with him for an hour or two during the afternoon. Late in the day, Kate and then George arrived and we finished getting the room set up for class tomorrow.
I will be out of town tomorrow, going on an excursion to UConn to meet with the collections director. So I won't be there if things collapse in the new classroom. But I think things are going to be just fine.
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