Holly and I have been skirting the issue of hooking up the power bus to the railgun for about a year, and we've finally done it. And it turned out not to be the big problem we thought it would be.

Drilling all the original alignment holes was a real bitch, but now that we can just clamp it all together and drill straight through the whole rail stack, alignment is easy. And we went way overboard, as is our habit, with the bus bar. It's 3/4" diameter solid copper rod. Probably enough to comfortably carry 1,000,000 Amps. Sadly I don't think we'll get quite that much.

In other news, I did a bunch of electrical work on my room over the last two days. I'm epsilon away from having working outlets in my room. It's exciting. However, home depot was out of the insulation I need, which is holding me up from finishing the job. Next delivery: Dec. 11.

Oh, and my hair is short now. Shorter than it has been since my freshman year of college. The residents of 3E had varying responses from saying "It's pretty" to falling over on the ground crying and wiggling.