Summer time

The previously mentioned light turned out to be the end of the tunnel after all. Only problem is once out of the tunnel it became apparent that this track is a series of long tunnels with very small gaps in between. In this case the gap is all of 3 weeks long. I have decided to attempt an accelerated class over the summer.
After smashing through my Lasers final with a 95% I decided to maintain my momentum and signed up for EEE 544 High Resolution Radar.
Lets see how this goes.

On the baby front (you do know I have a baby now right?) Max is growing like a new born baby. He is up to 9 lbs and we have retired our first sets of clothes. He is focusing on objects and lights and even sometimes faces. He smiles a lot now and his audio output system has developed well. He can now belt out room shaking wails and has become proficient finding the optimum angle at which to tilt his head to ensure the maximum amount of sound energy will enter your ear canal, especially during burping.

C, E, and e are visiting this weekend and it sure feels good to have them around again. I think they have lived abroad longer than they lived here now (maybe not.. not thinking to hard about he time frames) but it sure feels "normal" around here again. Its nice to have friends that you are so familiar with that even after a year apart you drop in and click like its only been a week.

Since it has been so chaotic around here I feel like there are a ton of things I meant to post but never got around to it. One of those is the saga of a bad SSD in a striped array, the week of attempted restores.. the final replacement and restore that finally went as planned, and the discovery that the images had corrupted files. Hooray for backing up corrupted files.
It is a saga I will save for another time, if I tell it at all.

Is that a train?

I can see a light at the end of the tunnel for this semester. Given that I am now a week behind in watching my lectures.. but caught up on the homework and I have a test in 5 days, it very well may be a train. There are only a few weeks left in this semester and I can hardly wait to be done with school for a while. This summer is going to be a much needed break.

serial IO

Word of advice to all those soon to be fathers out there. One of you will handle most of the input, one of you will handle most of the output. Guess which one is you.

Kids are fun. No seriously, I practically enjoy the wailing as I wipe unnatural green goo of another humans butt. I guess that means I've bonded or something. Max is pretty awesome, especially when he gets that confused look on his face and his eyes start roaming the room trying to find something to lock on to. This, I have learned, is a pretty good sign that he is almost ready for another data dump.

The life of a baby is pretty simple. It feels like my first IC design (basically a 8 bit processor math co-processor). Input---process--process---process--output--wait for next input.
I can't wait until he is an dual overclocked quad-core system with triple SLI. Soon,

Lists make all the work worth while

Below is a list of this week's accomplishments.

1. Finish laundry ( 4 loads)
2. Hang uber-Mobile in nursery
3. Reposition wall-hung TV
4. frame and hang new door to laundry room
5. shampoo carpets
6. watch lectures, turn in homework #4
7. Take test #1
8. Have a baby
9. Bring healthy mom and baby home

Yup, its been a pretty busy week.