autumn is here

It seems like autumn has finally arrived here in Auckland. Kinda late, and hopfully it won't stay long. It has been raining strongly the last 3 days and I'm starting to get sick of it already. This is what I wanted to get away from when I left Munester. At least it is still fairly warm, about 17 degrees Celcius. The last few days haven't been really exciting, I'm still experimenting in the lab, and unfortunatly didn't get that much further. I think I figured out why my results weren't reproducible, the spectrum of our pump laser seems to change, when its output power or the wavelength has changed. Knowing that doesn't really help however, because I can't really change it. The only thing I can do is try to always wait for a period of time and hope that the laser settles into the same stable condition. My social life is not very exciting either, I guess I'm getting old. I just can't wait for Nora to arrive, it's only two more weeks. I am more up for doing chill stuff with her than go party a lot. However today is Casey's birthday so we will go to a restaurant tonight. It's called Caluzzi (or similar) and they usually have a big transvestile show one, so that will be fun.