So, I’ve been here almost three days now.  Nice place.  Covers a ginormous area.  The weather is colder than in NYC and it has been raining intermittently.  Yesterday, we were able to locate “Fall Creek” - famous for a high suicide rate.  Let me make one thing clear: Cornell and Ithaca are gorgeous (or gorges - same thing).  But they are also far away from any large town/city, so things can get boring fast.  As an undergraduate user of the Cornell Nanoscale Facility, I am not allowed in except during 8AM - 6PM.  This has restricted what I can do and when.  Training took more or less all of Monday and Tuesday but I got the ball rolling on my processing today.  I’m hoping the first stage will be done tomorrow morning and then I can do the second stage in the afternoon.  The final stage will probably have to be done by the graduate student I work with since I won’t able to get into or stay inside the facility after 6PM.  We have to get out of Ithaca on Thursday night or early Friday morning.  I’m hoping that I don’t have to return for some small processing.

Also, once I get back, I’ll upload all the pictures I’m taking here.

Wow, I’ve been promising a new theme for far too long now.  Unfortunately, it’s going to take some more time.  I’m somewhat busy right now and next week I’ll be off to Cornell to use their nanoscale facility to pattern a silicon wafer.  The biggest hold-up right now is the header image.  I have a few different ideas but I keep jumping around from to another and am having a hard time settling on one.  I’ve abandoned my initial plans for how I wanted to modify my theme - it will now center around the colors defined in whatever header image I choose to use.

Also, I just updated to Wordpress 2.6 and it seems to be running fine.  I really love the Gears support and the ability to preview a theme within the admin dashboard before applying it.  I’ve always been frustrated by having to apply a theme in order to see how it will look on my blog.  If WP2.6 causes any problems on this site, let me know.

I’ll have another 10-Song-Playlist up before I leave for Cornell.  Haven’t finalized the artist, but I have 3 drafts in progress!