Another day in paradise. The Geotek continued its petulance- today the computer failed due to a dead battery on the motherboard. After replacing and rebuilding the BIOS (yucky), we have at least determined the problem is an electronics board for the magnetics meter. A new board is en route from Geotek, and rebuilding a stack of electronics boards is in my near future. Otherwise, a new team member arrived today, Kartika Kirana, a PhD student at ITB who will investigate magnetic properties of the Towuti cores for her PhD. Welcome Tika! We took her down to a stormy but beautiful Lake Towuti this afternoon to set up our sampling and supply vessel. And this evening, a busload of drillers left Makassar bound for Sorowako. We'll be seeing them, krating daeng in hand, first thing tomorrow morning. (TDP on facebook)