I didn’t get a phone call, but I also couldn’t take a job today: I had a layout contract meeting this afternoon.

I worked on supplying some stock ideas for my son’s two week long stock contest in his Econ class, then I ate, watched an episode of Top Gear, washed my Porsche, and then headed off to the meeting.  The meeting cleared up a lot of things regarding this new chip project.  I spent at least an hour looking through a microscope at the competitor’s chip (which is no longer sold) and determined that it was even simpler than we had originally thought.  How often can you say that?  We also met with the fab people and another outside design consultant – my former, former boss.  It was good to see him again.  After a couple of hours, everyone was on the same page, and had come to the same conclusions about the chip and the process that I had come to after looking under the microscope.  Starting this weekend, I can set up the chip environment for layout and then hopefully begin.

Alas, the meeting ran long and I didn’t have time to pick up groceries for dinner.  I had to get on over to my last evening class for the year.  Today was the continuation of the student presentations.  I had done mine on Tuesday, so I was really only there for support.  I had also turned in my final project via email earlier in the day.  When I got all my papers back, they were all A’s.  Yeah!  Class let out early too; yeah again!

Just before class had started, I sought out my counselor to see what progress had happened on the student teaching front.  It was good news: I would start at my wife’s middle school, and I was approved by the district for all twelve weeks.  The only hoop that remained was whether or not the supervisor would allow me to do the entire twelve weeks at the same school.  She’s the only one who might change things at this point.  Everyone else is quite alright with me doing everything at one school.  I’d be setting a precedent for the university, but I’m fine with that; I can be a trailblazer.