Hello, all. This week my code finally went into production at CMS, and it seems to work. Hooray! My little piece of the puzzle is some monitoring code which tells the shifter whose job it is to guard the pixel subdetector if a certain specific piece of the experiment is malfunctioning in real time. My boss, Dr. Karl Ecklund, wants me to eventually add functionality to monitor other things, but for now, life is good! In other news, I've done some exploration of the surrounding area. Lausanne and Montreux were very pretty, and I got to go hiking at a ski resort called Les Diaberets, which was cool until it started raining, at which point it became quite cold! I also spent a weekend in Lyon, but it was hot and not very interesting. CERN in general is surrounded by beautiful scenery and filled with mad scientists, but the infrastructure leaves something to be desired. The buildings look suspiciously like no architects were disturbed in their construction, and the power grid needs some work! Other than that things seem cool. More later, Robert
