Back!?
Two months with no posting and three months without a real post.Well, as said in the last post a huge crisis was on the way and it hit us like a hurricane. It's a crisis at home, but nothing to do with family. Family is great.
Long story short. My wife came back to work after two lumbar disk hernia surgeries and took little time to find out the kind of ASSHOLE (sorry for the word, but is the sweetest that comes to mind) he is. After some professional mistreat she decided to quit, putting our life in Munich in problems. We managed a provisional solution.
That solution also goes through looking to the world outside of the research "bubble" ...
Besides that, I also commented here, a couple of times, that the childcare structure in Munich is extremely deficient. That forces parents to basically build their own kindergartens. The state funds most of it but has no work (and expenses) administrating it.
Our, the drachenei, started on august. This had a lot of work associated. From end of june to mid august literally building the place, still every weekend some stuff to do. From that on we all have tasks to perform. Mine, of course is IT and part of the Facility Management group.
The whole month of august was the adaptation of the kids there. That represented part-time care, with increasing time and in good part staying at the place during a couple of hours. Adaptation went well. Now the second phase started. Making it work properly with all the problems of a starting operation.
It took a lot of time.
Together with that, a lot of time spent with application material outside of the academy and difficult times to put my mind on work.
Not all lost. The GCS project is flowing, tends to accelerate now. A nice radio sources project has effective started and we observed good data on PNes in compact groups. Data to be reduced.
The good news are that the UCDs paper was accepted TODAY. So soon is astro-ph (probably friday).
In summary we have detected, for the first time, UCDs in two Hickson Compact Groups (HCG) - HCG 22 and HCG 90. The detected UCDs indicate two different formation channels and now NEW objects. Old objects with possible mid-age ones.
Cool paper :-)
Labels: hcg_gcs, hcg_pn, hcg_ucd, life
posted by Cris Da Rocha @ 8:24 PM
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