Thursday, September 29, 2011

D-day -155 (-39)

Turned out that the LaTeX sub-boss I thought I had downed yesterday was still up and lurking, and he turned out to be pretty tough to finish off. He today spawned a minion, the BibTeX mini-boss, and together they gave me a really hard time. I now believe they are gone, at least for the moment. But I suspect that the BibTeX dude will be back again, further into the Quest. I heard him mutter something about "..bibliographystyle.... makebst.... mumblemumble..." when he hobbled away. I received a minor award in the form of Colombian coffee, which is what makes me believe I'm done for now.

.....Soooo, only 588 words and one figure, you now may wonder. Too many Aperol gespritzt last night eeeh...? I here however would like to blame not only the above mentioned LaTeX nasties, but also the very unnecessary side quest of getting registered with Austrian authorities - the Meldezettel task. Very time consuming, all for no apparent reason.
 
Today’s Achievements
Status: can now also include references
Progress: LaTeX project formatted even more, BibTeX sorted out, biomass gasification section started, terminology&definitions written, appended papers section finished(!)
Hours in Schloss: 9:45
Words written: 588 (60 words/h)
Figures included: 1 
Austrian authorities visited: 1
Administrative issues solved: 1
Administrative issues remaining to be solved: 2

Overall Quest Stats
Sections down: thesis outline, included papers, not included papers, research journey, paper overview, co-author statement, terminology&definitions, appended papers
Sections still up and running around being elusive and playing hard-to-get: pretty much everything
Hours in Schloss: 30:30
Words written: 2830 (93 words/h)
Figures included:
Quest level: 4* - Apprentice

2 comments:

Lisa said...

Du glömmer väl inte det allra viktigaste? Acknowledgements... fixar du det så har du ju en hel sida - det är inte så scheisse!
/Lisa

Elisabeth said...

Dessutom den viktigaste sidan. Det är ju det enda som ALLA garanterat kommer läsa!

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