Once upon a time on usenet Jim Lesurf wrote:
In article , ~misfit~
wrote:
Is the world ready for this? :-)

Well, I've given it 37 years to prepare itself... :-)

See what you think

http://jcgl.orpheusweb.co.uk/history/qmc3/hawaii1.html

My eyes!!!!!

(Ahem.) However now you've seen the photo you can understand why I was
unable to reject the request from the lady in question. :-)

I had to include the 'Captain Bean' photos because my ex-students kept
insisting that I did.

Thats said I find the rest of the page very interesting.

More when the round tuits supply permits! Two other trips to Hawai'i
and one in between to mainland USA. Hope to cover the dead body on
the table, the day the wind blew the shutters off the window, the day
we had so many earthquakes Alf had to keep making new locating pins
for the telescope, the day I saw I was going bald, etc. 8-]

My habit at the time was to write up the day's work, etc, each day.
Mainly to keep track of the work, observations, etc. But also events
of various kinds.

The snag was that for each trip I just grabbed the first notebook to
hand. As a result the details are scattered around four different
books, and so now it takes some sorting out to determine time-order.
Similarly, my slides had got jumbled from giving talks many years
ago. So needed sifting and sorting. Thank heaven Kodak used to put a
processing date and number on each slide!

Until a few weeks ago I'd have said I only took *two* trips because my
memory had conflated events. I'd not looked at the older notbooks for
many years.

Probably normal for research students/assistants but it was the
busiest and most complex period of my life. I was also still working
on the Armstrong 700 amps during the same period as the Hawai'i trips
and doing other contract work. Can't imagine now, how I had the
energy or stamina for all that *and* a 'social life'! 8-]

On real regret looking though the notes is the loss of contact since
then with some who I felt very close to at the time. Reading my notes
makes me wonder how they are now and what they did after I'd left
QMC. Great bunch of people. But I still have contact with some, and
hope to re-find others.

Be sure to keep us informed when you update.
--
Shaun.

"Humans will have advanced a long, long way when religious belief has a cozy
little classification in the DSM*."
David Melville (in r.a.s.f1)
(*Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders)