October 3, 1975: Friday

Today was a busy day. Tom, the Nebraskan, came up to put Plexiglas on the Satellite Photo. Emmett and Dave dropped by and said to put Plexiglas on all the maps. Jim Newman picked up my Marble Point negatives and Ensign Carter checked out our refrigerators.

We got out and cleaned up the Micron Photo Sizer and Centrifuge. We’re going to do a size analysis on the core samples we got yesterday. We figured out how to run the contraption, what it does and why. But all the manuals are in Japanese, so we can’t do anything about interpreting the data.

Started to make a thin section of a Marble Point dike basalt. Remembered all the steps and didn’t even need very much help.

Did my wash, read some early Mad books. I worked on Antigone and Mercedes, a little. My concentration was interrupted. Sam read parts of Richard M. Nixon, the Second Part.

We’re moving into the Hotel tomorrow. It’s not all that bad, even though there were frozen blankets all over the laundry room and the doors needed repainting with the paint spots on the carpet. There’s a red hat by the door that says, “Nebraska Cornhusker Football 1971-1972. Go Big Red.”

The thing in the Mess that says, “Structure, Lounge, 1 each G-0375-ML935,” was stamped on by Jim Matthews. I thought it was official.