Ox Fall Down

Matchday 7: much smoother and faster today after yesterday's marathon. Back and left fields accessed. Overhead Tom Petty gives way to Peter Frampton.

It comes out in conversation that the radiation therapists treat to half a millimeter of perfect alignment. Any larger discrepancy and they realign. They use the same device to take x-rays as they do to deliver the proton beams. The tattoos and ink spots are used to fit you in the tray. Then they use spinal images from the x-rays to micro-adjust. Ron calls them, "bony markers." After the image is taken they just slide the snout over the x-ray hole, affix the aperture to the already-mounted lens and fire away.

Dinner in the cafeteria. Then across the river to the Kendall to get knocked around by the beautiful, little Irish girls in In America.