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 well, which is beyond my abilities. In the evening, I went on a bike ride with my daughter, then we went to her favorite restaurant: Sendai. She had lots of Sushi (which she pronounces Shushi).
Wednesday: Another long day at work; this time completing the reverse engineering a competitor’s part. Can we design it better, and on a completely different process? My goal is to answer that question. In the evening, my daughter and I went to see X-Men, First Class, which was an outstanding movie. Following that, we used our free Burger King coupons (The two of us had stared at a Whopper for 45 minutes as part of a contest to win two free Whoppers). I dropped my daughter off at a friend’s house after that so she could spend the night. Tomorrow, she’ll go to another friend’s house to spend the night.
Thursday: Woo Hoo! I’m all alone… and so I spent much of the day in the office. I learned how to make hierarchical schematics, which is not easy in the cheap program that we’re using. Late in the afternoon, I met with a Reliability Testing firm, who hopefully will be able to verify our current designs at a low cost. I’ll be talking to another group next week. When I got home, I had just enough time to write up a month’s worth of Bible Studies for the band (while I’m away), and practice both bass and electric, since I didn’t know which one I would play (we have a lot of unavailable folks this week). As it turned out, I only needed the bass.
Friday: Wouldn’t you know it, I forgot one very important pad of paper in the office yesterday – the one with all my hand-drawn reverse engineering schematics on it. Once traffic died down, I made a quick 26.6 mile loop to the office to grab that pad of paper. Maybe it’s just me, but recently there has been a rash of slow driving Asians who look like they are completely lost, or at least confused while driving on the road. I met three today, and I’ve encountered maybe five this week. I know it’s a full moon out tonight, which is when the crazies get into their cars, but sheesh, not only are these guys driving really slow, but they refuse to pick a lane and they aren’t paying attention to those around them. It’s almost like they’re staring at the ceiling while driving – driving by Braille. I almost got hit twice during my loop as I attempted to pass two different guys because they were somehow drawn to my car, or at least my lane while I was passing them – twice in one trip! (The third guy was just slow… very slow, and I had to wait a long time to get around him. He was, of course, in the fast lane of the highway. Let’s just say that the delta speed between his car and my desires was about 40MPH).
Tonight, all the family returns from their various places. We will then spend the weekend packing for our NY trip. Somewhere in there, my wife and I will also have to put together materials for a class that we’re teaching this Sunday! My dad also hit me up for a sermon next week, so I’ll be preparing one of those as well. I hope God will give me a topic for the sermon, and provide material for the class we’re teaching on Sunday!
Mood: I need a vacation!