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From: Mills@udel.edu
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Subject: Not a Lord a-leaping
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Date: 1 Jan 91 03:26:09 GMT
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Folks,

Amongst the battery of instruments clicking, humming and 
flickering here this evening all eyes and ears were tuned
for The Leap. In spite of the fact I broke a couple of
fuzzballs that, with Louie Mamakos' help, got put right
only a couple of minutes before the Event, all clocks
and monitors were running okay. I am happy to report the
pinball-machine behavior I was so ashamed of at the last
Leap was notably absent on this one. All the fuzzbugs
sailed right through the Leap doing exactly what they
were supposed to. The radios, of course, got scrambled,
but the fuzzies just ignored the nonsense and waited until
the ions cooled before relatching the radios.

I was most concerned about the fuzzbugs in Oslo, which are
chimed to the Norwegian standards - one a cesium clock and
the other a LORAN-C receiver, since those bugs still have
to disambiguate the seconds via the U.S. chimers. Therefore,
it's not just a question of retiming the tick, but knowing
what tick is the right one. Think about it. Anyway, the 
bugs figured it all out and the times tick true.

Well, the fuzzballs got it right this time. Now, about the
others. Don't ask.

Dave