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Never wear socks for more than a day. Otherwise your feet start to stink like phew! It's so bad too cause most stinky places you can get up and go away, find air that's fresher. But you can't do that with your own stinky feet, even if you extend the leg and move it as far as possible from the nose, it's still close enough! Cutting off the leg isn't a certifiable solution either (it's funny that certifiable, if you do a definition search on onelook.com, returns the following first "fit to be certified as insane (and treated accordingly)"). Perhaps its not too insane to part with the foot if its stinky enough!

Anyways, putting stinky feet and dirty socks aside, this past week has been hell (it's also the reason for the stinky feet and unchanged socks)! Our new dilution fridge has finally arrived. The delay has been at least a year and a half or so? And the dewar housing the dilution unit does not actually fit spec, so in three months time a new one will be shipped and all this installation and testing will have to be done again. But if all goes well, we start cooling down Tuesday and will hit base temperature of < 5 mK! I bet at that temperature, nothing is stinky cause the particles that bring up the nauseating smells will have been frozen to vibrating in place. In fact, I will probably stop functioning too, so definitely no stinkiness.

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