After the alignment tweaking with Jenne, and getting through PRM, I continued with the Initial Alignment.  The Dark Michelson came up on its own fairly well aligned and I only barely touched it.

After the IA, attempted locking.  First attempt was on an ugly DRMI mode.  Second Attempt locked DRMI within 10-15min.  Proceeded through Guardian States.  First hitch was at ENGAGING ISS 2ND LOOP.  Ended up having to Engage by hand (via Kiwamu's alog); this was scary as it's hard to engage when output is close to zero---had a big glitch when I engaged, but it rode through (yay!).

Finally made it to NOMINAL LOW NOISE with range around 80Mpc (but had a few DIFFS on SDF).  The Diffs were:

Input Pointing Diffs:  

• IM1 & IM3 pointing changed at ~14:45 PST today (Jim?)
• RM1 & RM2 pointing changed by me this evening

Some ISIs in GS13 LO Gain Mode Diffs for HAM2, HAM5, ITMx

• Called Jim and he said these were probably stragglers left in LO gain from our seismic issues of the last few days.  He said switching to HI gain might drop H1 out of lock...I ACCEPTED the input point issues above first, and then switched HAM2 GS13s to LO gain:  This knocked H1 out of lock.  I switched HAM5 & ITMx ISIs to LO gain while down.

Now working on getting H1 back UP (& going to have dinner soon).