Thursday, February 22 (1945)

Paper had promised heavy rain but it only rained moderately. Never the less everything in the AM was all aslop. Cleared later. Spent entire AM in fruitless chase after Roberts to get fence order made out. Never did it. Air condition men came to look over two laboratories. Will virtually be obliged to re model mechanical room of No. 2. There is so much junk to go in. At 1300 came back to guest house and checked out M6 drew a NE cr. room. If I don't get a room mate all hunky dory. Bad material leak on #6 late in afternoon. Garden leaves us. Went over new salary set up. Looks like a raise.

Thursday, February 15 (1945)

Roommate wanted to read all night so got little sleep. Nose stopped. Neck and ears ached rheumatic no fun. things at plant about as usual. Leaks slightly less. A lot of minor jobs here and there, such as stopping ride sway in piping, etc. On the whole day was a little quieter than usual. Plant looked better. Felt very tired and nearly fell asleep about noon. Douched with glyco and felt better in evening. Doc. Garden is leaving us, so he says. Where does that leave me?

Wednesday, January 31 (1945)

Up at 6:00. Colder than yesterday. Back to plant and started hunting cause of shaking pipes. Asked Garden about noon relative to it and found he thought it involved trouble in the process. Later on got a hunch it came from pumps which are behaving badly. Finally ran into Albertson and had quite a rag chew. Believe Garden's right and whole pipe trouble may be caused by steam hammer and sound. Had an accident. 1/8" cross line on a rack let go. Say the ensuing fumes are poisonous. Not very however. I think. Back at guest house. This is my last day in the U.S. Army. Tomorrow, I'm a cit.