79 Days - Cold Again.

So I checked the weather this morning and its turning cold again. It was expected to be 42 again or 5c. I was just hoping it wasnt windy. It was windy. It also rained pretty hard during the afternoon. The place that makes the black pepper fried rice is on chinese new year. We instead got a bowl of chicken and shrimp fried rice. There was also half a tea egg in there. I immediately removed that foul thing. The rest was ok, the shrimp didnt taste too good so I didnt eat them. I think tomorrow we will try to get pizza. Things are starting to quiet down onsite since more and more people are starting their vacation. Most people take off an entire week to celebrate the newyear and christmas here.

We are having problems with the network cabling onsite that they installed for us. We are doing the terminations and I was lucky enough to convince fisher to buy us a 7,000 tester that certifies the cabling. Well, it was failing the test all day today. The cable they installed is not a brand name, and has no specifications. I have been reading manuals and trying to figure out what to do. We are using a technology called EtherCat that relies on a fast network connection and this tool was supposed to give us the warm and fuzzies on the cable and if it passed, we should be ok. Well I couldnt get it to pass on any test setting. I will continue troubleshooting tomorrow and if it comes down to it, we will re-pull the network wiring. I just hope we can get some brand name stuff here in China.

No pics today, we are getting pretty busy, but not much change onsite. I was working on terminating all these network connections, and then we went on to testing. The cell modem we got works good in the control room. So I will try to setup wireless sharing of the internet.

Thats it for now.