So I got made a principal investigator for a small project at work, but it has turned into a real political cluster... mostly on account of sporadic and self-contradictory guidance coming down from the sponsor. It's looking like I'll be working some weekends to cover my bases on this because if I fail to accomplish what the sponsor wants at the time of the demo next month, then I look bad... even if I have accomplished the goals laid out for me at the outset.

To offset this aggravation, it looks like Kiril might be saving a bit of funding to send me to IEEE to talk about our fast analysis package for HEU enrichment monitors. This may not sounds like it's awesome, but that's because I left out the detail that IEEE this year is taking place in Honolulu. :-)

In other good news, I want to direct your attention to the most recent copy of Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physical Research (Section A), which you keep on your bedside table. You do, right? Anyway, you'll find an article in there entitled, "Development of a liquid scintillator neutron multiplicity counter (LSMC)." I'm a coauthor. SCIENCE!