I felt I had enough info to start the preliminary work on my chip, so that’s what I spent the day doing.  I built up a techfile for the process, design rules, and a basic cell that will get repeated all over the chip; all in all, a very satisfying day.  In the evening, we had a longer than usual band rehearsal because we were rehearsing for both Sunday and for Christmas Eve.  We also had four acoustic guitars on stage, which is unusual.  Over the two dates, three of us are playing at least one song on acoustic.  I brought two guitars to see which one I wanted to play.  I’m going with the classical guitar because I lack the finger strength and dexterity to do difficult Christmas songs on the acoustic, so it would seem, even though the acoustic sounds better.  I put a new set of strings on the acoustic for nothing!  I have also been asked to bring a fretless bass on Sunday, so we’ll have a couple of basses on stage.