What a day. What a week. I am so burnt today. I have been busier than a cat on a marble floor. My knees ache like a bad day at skating practice. Construction proceeds apace here at my place of employ. They've sectioned off a large chunk of floorspace which used to be cube-farm and sealed it off with floor to ceiling plastic sheeting to keep ( Read more... )

It's late, and I am just getting settled in again. I had some more last-minute stuff to do tonight. I've still got to buy more postage stamps. I've still got to write all of these cards to people. I stopped at the mall again tonight to pick up a couple more things. I think there were more people there this time. How busy can I get? My ( Read more... )

This is a Chinese Fire drill. Repeat: this is a Chinese Fire drill. All personnel report to battle stations their cubes for immediate disintegration and start packing.
The powers that be are re-organizing the cube farm here at work. I have to pack up everything in my "office" because it is being enlarged, from 8'x10' to 10'x10', and moved two ( Read more... )

McGuffin is proceeding oh so slowly. It is proceeding with a maddening slowness. This is the steep end of the learning curve. Robert and Tom and I, and to a lesser extent, Don, are attempting to define what the company we are building is, in essence. We're trying to get our project defined well enough to explain it to investors and set up ( Read more... )

Well, I'm here at work early this morning. I got in around 7:00. Usually, that doesn't happen unless I get up and get into the shower by 4:30. I hit the road shortly after six, amazed by my good timing. I wondered what went faster or what I had forgotten to do this morning. As I was cruising down 580 it occurred to me what it was: I forgot to ( Read more... )

The past two days have been hectically busy. What a change of pace from Friday. Friday Robert and I goldbricked for something like an hour diagnosing a dead automatic nightlight I broght in. Never give anything interresting to an engineer unless you want it disassembled. The diagnosis was too much current through the triac. Robert theorized ( Read more... )

Why is it that just because electrical engineers understand processors and digital logic, and have gone to the trouble to memorize the two dozen or so keywords of a couple of programming languages, they are now also qualified to be thought of as software engineers?

Here's a clue: YOU'RE NOT.

I'm an embedded software engineer, which means that I ( Read more... )

It's overcast and cool here again, after several days of sun, and my ( Read more... )

Well darkness has a hunger that's insatiable, and lightness has a
call that's hard to hear...

I don't really believe that, actually; I'm just a tad vaguely
disgruntled this morning, and sometimes, it just feels as if ( Read more... )

Geeze, what a day. It's overcast again today. This is beginning to be
a decidedly unwelcome trend here in the Bay Area this summer. I've been
so busy that my head is spinning. I've got ideas for about 10,000
things I want to put in here but I'm being run ragged by a life that has
suddenly forced me to be very industrious. Sheesh!

This ( Read more... )