Monthly Archives: July 2011

Today was a travel day.  My family got up nice and early (4:30AM) to catch a plane from San Jose to Phoenix, and then from Phoenix to Buffalo. Sort of a funny story (?), but I went to print out … Continue reading →

Wow, I was so busy this week, I didn’t have time to blog, so here’s a summary: Tuesday:  I spent the day looking at how to improve one of my company’s chips.  It needs some sort of design guidance as … Continue reading →

Yeah, a successful visit with Pastor Matt; I was able to say good-bye to him today once he was done talking with the church staff.  Everyone seems to like him. At work, it was a lot of emails and a … Continue reading →

Yeah, today Pastor Matt and family will begin four days of getting to know who our church is.  I was able to have lunch with him at a Mexican restaurant (Colombus, Ohio, where he currently lives, has no good Mexican … Continue reading →

Sort of unusual for me – I drove around today to pick up parts (ICs), then get them decapped (tops removed) so I could look at them under a microscope.  At my last company, I wasn’t allowed to do this … Continue reading →

Working at home, as I do 2-3 days a week, is a little more complicated now that my family is at home.  They are noisy!  They may drive me to go to the office more often! They had visited my … Continue reading →

My day started with cleaning a lot of egg off of my car.  It got targeted last night’s festivities.  Good thing I had that built-in layer of dirt and pollen already on the car.  It probably saved me from a … Continue reading →

The Fourth of July was a long, slow day, which is just fine with me.  On occasion, I don’t mind a slow day. The day started very early with Tour of France.  This is a month-long bicycle racing event that … Continue reading →

Well, I had hoped to spend one year being self-employed, or unemployed, or whatever you call it as I searched for whatever it was that I was supposed to be doing for the next 20 years of my life, but … Continue reading →