What you don't get done on Saturday falls hard on Sunday

Nov 08, 2009 22:13

So I spent today doing mostly school work (slides for presentation on Tuesday).  But the monotony was broken up by 3 visits, which were all here together at one point.  This is a rare occurrence here at casa Bachteler-Bissell, but it was a pleasant diversion.  Tim and Desiree came over so I could put some green in her hair, and Tim fixed the Linux part of my dual-boot netbook.  I'm ready to fly forth with Ubuntu!  Plus I got to share some music with them that they had never heard of, which made me feel sort of cool again.  Lyle came by to help Henry with car trouble, and I think they made some progress.  Somehow it just didn't seem right that Henry should be doing car repair ON HIS BIRTHDAY.  So Aleister and I surprised him (and Lyle, Tim, and Desiree) with Key Lime Pie and vanilla ice cream!  It was very scrumptious.  It also put me into a sugar coma and my "short rest" on the sofa at 5:30 turned out to be a 2-1/2 hour sleep.  When I woke up I had the sugar hangover, which I bandaged somewhat adequately with some cheddar cheese and a beer :-)

In case I haven't mentioned it yet, I have to give a 20-minute presentation a week from Tuesday on my capstone project proposal (senior year EE project), and other school work has taken up so much of my time this semester that I haven't done any work on the proposal yet.  I need to have schematics and an idea of how I am going to program it, and I haven't even cracked a book yet.  I'm planning on doing the programming in C, and using either an 8 or 16 bit microcontroller connected to a flash memory card, but I have no more information at present.  I'm thinking of using PWM with the battery power supply to make it last longer, but I have only started to research PWM for my second student researcher job.  I don't think it will be that difficult, it will conserve battery life, and that should make the users of my device happy.  Details aside, I still have only 9 days to come up with a 20-minute presentation and it is freaking me out.  I will be much happier when I am just building the damn thing.

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