Today I worked with Mauricio and Laird on evacuating the air out of Clio’s cryostat, which involved cleaning the o-ring and then hoping for a good vacuum. Laird did some fixes to the ASM, removing the alignment laser and making an alignment fiducial instead, and fixing some of the protective covering on the back to keep out the dust. Jared and Alfio worked in the morning on software and electronics for the AO system, and in the afternoon and evening they with Laird tested the cleaned VisAO optics and closed her back up.
![OK so it took 2 days because we had to re-open it this morning to clean the o-ring](/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/tjmauricio.jpg)
![The student and the professor](/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/jaredlaird.jpg)
![Kapton Scotch](/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/lairdkt.jpg)
![Sorry Alan](/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/ktpovilas.jpg)
![Consolation prize for me finally beating you in the NCAA March Madness bracket](/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/yellow.jpg)
![for Nick](/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/blue.jpg)
![for Andrew](/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/red.jpg)
![Looking for the green flash](/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/vizzy.jpg)
Song of the day for heavy-hearted basketball fans, if you need a cry 🙁
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On a happier note, let’s close with some light-hearted fan mail from my sister: