Meetings day

I barely even opened up my layout today.  The morning started out with a potential investor presentation.  In the end, they offered great advice — truly great — but they will not invest with us.  The afternoon meeting was a chat about company direction.  It went well, but we have our work cut out for us.  Somewhere in the middle of the day, I got a frantic call from one of my contract jobs.  They needed some expert advice because the fab said that my layout couldn’t be manufactured as drawn.  As soon as I was able (after the afternoon meeting), I rushed over to the fab and talked with them.  They were right; the way they handle one of their layers didn’t allow for diffusion overlaps, and this design was full of them (per the original design).  The addition of a mask solved this (So why has such an ancient process such as this never run into this issue before?  What I did was a common industry practice!).  With that solved, I drove around the corner to the contract company and explained to the CEO what had happened.  He seemed moderately OK with this.  While in the building, one of my former (good) bosses showed up — he’s now contracting for the same company, but on a different project.  It was good to see him.  When I got home, I didn’t have much time to waste — we were throwing a 50th birthday party for a dear friend at tonight’s Lifegroup.  The party was a success and everybody left fat and happy.  I can hardly wait for tax day tomorrow!