BW December 2014

12/15: I vacuumed the bundling table that was covered with metal shavings and sawdust. Liana and I took an inventory of some things in the storage closet in 405. I learned how to cut fibers and measure them with the new micrometer.

12/16: I measured some of the fibers in bundle 41, but I noticed traces of the cladding appearing on the fibers, so I stopped until I could consult someone about this problem. I swept lab 405 before leaving.

12/23: Yesterday I installed Windows 7 on the computer next to the phone in lab 403. When I put the installation CD into the DVD drive, a menu of boot options appeared. First I had to enter "1" and later after the computer rebooted it required "2" to complete installation and start running Windows. Another step in the installation was to delete all the partitions on the hard drive because they were not in the NTFS format Windows needed.

I installed several programs on the computer, including antivirus software, Google Chrome, Microsoft Office, Adobe Reader, and Java. Not knowing what other programs we needed, I logged off the computer and measured fibers for a while.