Crew is time limited and sleep-deprived. Reports may be thin and short for the next couple days until our day off (Wednesday).

Radio Communications - We have repaired the repeater problem by reassembling the receiver unit inside the habitat. An EVA was conducted successfully today to distances of 7 or 8 miles. We have received the new radios from headquarters and will test them out tomorrow. We have three separate EVA's scheduled for tomorrow in close proximity to the habitat.

Water pump - The sump pump that is being used to pump water into the first floor of the habitat was fixed today. The activation arm had been jammed down.

Reports and Logging - The NASA reference documentation and preliminary operations manuals schedule one hour of report writing a day, no group planning meetings, and no time for work-related e-mail processing. This is proving to be impossible to maintain. This crew spends at least several hours a day doing work-related report writing, logging of schedules, logging of experiments, and planning the day's and next day's activities. We continue to keep detailed logs of our time spent Next week we will attempt to follow the split ops approach with three teams of two following independent schedules. This week has been each person independently scheduled/tasked. The crew has prepared EVA reports, HSO reports, a Captain's Log, and anecdotal journals to be attached to this report today. Photos will follow tomorrow. Serious videography for the National Geographic documentaries has started with S. Burbank both inside and outside the habitat.

Science Lab and field microbiology - The autoclave was set up today, the microscope UV fluorescence microscope lenses and filters had been taken off. They have been re-installed and the optics realigned. More work needs to be done on this. P. Boston will conduct a walking EVA in the vicinity of the habitat. Microbiology field protocol tests were done by Sam and Ephi yesterday (see their EVA report and Penny's report attached).

Tomorrow we will set up the GIS computer that Jean has sent and begin the process of tabulating our EVA data. Results will be posted as soon as possible.

Music - This is turning out to be one of the most successful projects of the mission. Last night was another major milestone. Joshua Burbank and Jeremy Bloch sent rough fragments of a song, which were then arranged and augmented through the night by the Extremophiles. When the rest of the crew awoke this morning, a new piece had emerged. We will be writing about this experiment in more detail and posting the report within the next few days. We are having some issues with DigiStudio, and would really appreciate some assistance from Mission Control or other musicians reading this report. Our question is how to find more details on the status of an "upload" when posting a new session to the projects list. We experience frequent internet interruptions and we don't know whether there is any way to find a log of how much of a file was uploaded (or indeed whether it is still being uploaded). We will attempt to contact our Digidesign reps directly to ask this question, but if you can assist, we'll look forward to your help.

Our crew has been enjoying the beats and rhymes of E=MC Hawking.

Random delivery notes - We were delivered a box apparently intended for someone in California with a return address in Hanksville. There are no markings on it at all for the Mars Society. We opened it for security/safety reasons and found a pillow inside. We'll send it back next time we get a delivery. We still have not received the kitchen supplies, but we're doing fairly well with what we have, combined with our new electrical system.

Waste - We are still looking to Mission Control or HQ to solve the waste issue. We should (and physically cannot) bury it, we cannot process it in the biolet, and it cannot sit in the back of the pickup truck for more than another week (because we have to use the truck to transport our gear back to Earth).

Patch - We're putting the finishing touches on our mission patch. We will post it as soon as it's finalized

Safety Protocols - We're still working on these.

Crew Schedule for tomorrow

• 3 EVAs planned - One morning (Boston, Morphew, McDaniels), One afternoon (McDaniels, Schubert), one Evening (Snok, Burbank)
  
  Major IVA activities - Science Laboratory preparation and sample analysis.
  
  
• Kitchen duties - We have developed a proper kitchen duties task schedule which is posted in the hab and which will help in the management of the food and its impact on the rest of our work. Schedule will be posted tomorrow.
  
  
• Music - Kelly will lead a ProTools tutorial in the morning and the Extremophiles will continue collaboration with Submarine and It's Not Rocket Science Studios. Some of the crew's poetry will be used to inspire 2 new songs tomorrow.
  
  
• Videography - photographs are being prepared for posting tomorrow. We are not neglecting this important duty, we were just left with a habitat in such dire need of overhaul that it has taken us 4 days to (quite literally) dig out.
  
  
• Exercise - All crew members will be conducting walking EVAs tomorrow, so no separate exercise is planned.