Bye bye new device and climbing

Today, I had to say bye bye to the device I was testing. Now that I am really analyzing the results I could think of tons of more test to do. Too bad I can't do them any more. But no worries. I can take on old methods and thus test whether I get the same results. Exciting. I got back to my main line of work today except for writing about the results. The thing with the kind of research I am doing is that is it sort of never-ending. Even if you investigate for months and months, well even years, you could still suddenly find out something new. And you can also get into it really deeply like if you are more interested in one sort of analysis method you could spend just a lifetime making it better for this sort of research (some people do do this). So it just seems quite hard to know when to stop and say "that's it, I don't need more results or better results". Right nowI am just trying to get a better understanding of the most interesting lines of research but it is quite hard to get stuff to work sometimes. Or I know how I can get this one thing to work but is would take like a month and I can't really wait that long. I need to get writing up my thing. I was planning on getting all the experimental stuff out of the way today but not very surprisingly that didn't work out. I will have to do like half a days lab work tomorrow since today all the things did not work out. Tomorrow I was planning on writing the whole day but that will have to wait for next week. At least I can plan what to write about tomorrow. Psychologically getting ready to write is important for me. But enough about work. I think this is the most I've written about work since I started this blog actually.

I'm kind of really waiting for my German classes to end though I know I'll miss going out and seeing people even though I don't really talk to anyone there. I'll have to figure out something else to do next year. The course ends on the 12th and a week from that I will be leaving for Finland so I don't think I will have lots of time to think about what to do before next year. The way things are going I might have to start writing my thesis at home or at least spend more time at work doing it till like 6 pm or so. I have to have some sort of version for the professors when I go see them in January while in Finland and I want it to be a rather good one and not just the stuff I have now. (Ok so this is also about work.)

Climbing is great. Yesterday I did this 5+ wall that I could not get up last time. It was quite a challenge. Just to give you an idea, a wall with a rating of 2 is for kinds and "anyone" could get up that. I got up ratings of 3 on my first time with not a lot of difficulty. I warm up on 3s. Ratings of 4 can at times be sort of tricky and yesterday I did not get up one 4+ wall though mostly they are not that hard. But 5s are really tricky, for me at least, and you really need to want to get all the way up and need strength. The ratings can be kind of off at times of course because people are of different heights and so. Some walls are just more difficult for some people.

My hands are getting sweaty writing about climbing. Actually one night after I had not got up a diffucult part of the 5+ I did yesterday my hands and feet were getting really sweaty in bed half sleeping while I was thinking about it. It is really weird though when I mentioned it to my climbing partner she was like "yeah my boyfriend at least gets that too". And yeah I dream about climbing days I've done it.

Back to the ratings. My friend gets up ratings of 6 but I think I am quite far behind on that. The grabs get a lot smaller and you have to have very much strength. There are these walls made of like elements so that they are sort of like in nature and getting up one of those without the grabs would be like an 8 or so. I think my plan while in Germany is to try to get up all the 5s and maybe I will try out a 6.

So people here stop and hang on the rope half way up or so and then continue and when they get up they say they got up. I say you have to get up in one go with no hanging on the rope. Like if one had no rope hanging on it would be falling. That's like cheating. Cheating one's self.

Gotta go home before German class now with my sweating hands. I really can't help it.