Yes, twelve more days until I depart for Maryland for the summer.

I’m really glad that I got a chance to attend the Fire Conference about a month ago and meet the people that I’ll be working with. I got a prety good glance at what exactly I’ll be doing there in the summer:

• Assisting with writing/rewriting the user manuals for NIST Fire Dynamics Simulator
• Assisting with writing a new guide to fire modeling in FDS which will help more with the “process of modeling” than the underworkings
• Performing verification and validation tests with the fire dynamics models
• Assisting with the final version release and community development of FDS code and support issues
• Assisting with the development of a material properties database for input into FDS

I know it sounds vague, but there is so much going on at NIST that this really helps me make sense of things.

I also have assigned roommates now, three people total in the apt./hotel who are not online geeks like me who have read every thread in the online researchers forum; so I have not met them informally or formally.

I am actually way too excited about the next three months to turn back and think about missing home – in my world, this is easily one of the top experiences that will happen in my life.

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