In Charge of the Laser

After not quite finishing the assignment off yesterday evening, it was back to the lab today to get the final bits in place. I am a little disappointed that we didn't quite finish on time and ended up handing in the assignment two minutes after the deadline. With a bit of luck the lecturer will be lenient enough to see that it was only two minutes rather than just accepting the 'late' stamp added by the Blackboard software.

Having learned how to program and operate the laser yesterday, today was my chance to put that to the test. They were rather desperate for crew for Space and so I agreed (slightly reluctantly) to work. It was actually quite a lot of fun being in a tech position as usually I am resigned to general crew which isn't nearly as exciting.

The one downside to being a laser operator compared with operating lights is that the laser isn't on from the start of the event. It is considered to be something that should be gradually introduced so I didn't get to play with it much until about 1am. I'm sure the novelty of it will ware off soon enough but the temptation to play with it all night was considerable. Saying that, it would have been nice if some of the music was a bit more laser oriented. At the end of the night, the DJ went mad and started playing 80's songs.