Fat Tuesday @ Home
Here it is, Fat Tuesday, and I'm home. Good thing actually. I'm tired and need some rest, and its another long day tomorrow. 9-Ball last night; and 8-Ball tomorrow night.
A slight correction from my last post; we're actually getting carpeting for my house from the local carpet and furniture store in my home town, along with installation. I'd always rather do business with local businesses than a business 70 miles away. Money spent at "home" works at "home". Nice rule of thumb when you do business in a rural area.
The 8-Ball team I'm on did good last week (we won 4-1), and we've (at least for the moment) moved into 1st place in our division. My 9-Ball team is having a little mid-season struggle. We've lost the last two matches; one pretty badly, and then last night (not so bad, but still a lost). We've dropped to around 4th place... not too far back yet, but we better turn it around soon...
Work has been hectic; I got switched onto a little higher priority project at work that I need to finish quickly. This one is a fairly straight-forward embedded design with an SPI interface to another processor. I'm doing both sides of the interface and should be able to complete things in short order; about a 4 week total turnaround time; then back to finish up the previous project I was on.
Moving time is fast approaching. Less than 3 weeks to go; and I've been packing as much stuff as I can; when I can. The nice thing about moving like this; I can take my time; get the large stuff moved first, then move enough things so that I can use the apartment and also live at the house while I continue to move stuff. This is basically how I spent my last month in an apartment when I was moving out to the house 14 years back... geez, its been that long! Lots of changes here in Rowlett in that time...
Rowlett had a small town "feel" back then. It's lost that in the past few years; its just another suburb now; still a very nice place to live, but different than it was when I moved here originally. The population out here has at least doubled if not more...
Well, I think its about time to close this off and go get some much needed rest. Tomorrow will be here before I know it!
A slight correction from my last post; we're actually getting carpeting for my house from the local carpet and furniture store in my home town, along with installation. I'd always rather do business with local businesses than a business 70 miles away. Money spent at "home" works at "home". Nice rule of thumb when you do business in a rural area.
The 8-Ball team I'm on did good last week (we won 4-1), and we've (at least for the moment) moved into 1st place in our division. My 9-Ball team is having a little mid-season struggle. We've lost the last two matches; one pretty badly, and then last night (not so bad, but still a lost). We've dropped to around 4th place... not too far back yet, but we better turn it around soon...
Work has been hectic; I got switched onto a little higher priority project at work that I need to finish quickly. This one is a fairly straight-forward embedded design with an SPI interface to another processor. I'm doing both sides of the interface and should be able to complete things in short order; about a 4 week total turnaround time; then back to finish up the previous project I was on.
Moving time is fast approaching. Less than 3 weeks to go; and I've been packing as much stuff as I can; when I can. The nice thing about moving like this; I can take my time; get the large stuff moved first, then move enough things so that I can use the apartment and also live at the house while I continue to move stuff. This is basically how I spent my last month in an apartment when I was moving out to the house 14 years back... geez, its been that long! Lots of changes here in Rowlett in that time...
Rowlett had a small town "feel" back then. It's lost that in the past few years; its just another suburb now; still a very nice place to live, but different than it was when I moved here originally. The population out here has at least doubled if not more...Well, I think its about time to close this off and go get some much needed rest. Tomorrow will be here before I know it!
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Colds, Pool, Carpet, and Stuff
For the past several weeks now, I've had a fairly persistent and nasty headcold with some minor bronchial congestion. The darn thing just won't let go no matter what I seem to do. It's not keeping me from doing things I have to do, but it sure makes life not so much fun! I'll get over it eventually but its making me miserable in the meantime!
My 9-Ball team is playing (as usual) pretty well! We're in good position after the first few weeks of the spring session. The 8-Ball team I'm on is doing darn good as well. We won this past week 4-1 over a good team from the 777 Club. I also got a call from my dad; as well as an email. He found a deal on a new 8 foot pool table for my house at the lake in Washington. It'll be delivered and set up this next Tuesday (Valentines Day!). He told me that he and mom will be practicing so that they can take me on when I come up this summer! I am really looking forward to vacation; there's going to be lots of work for my dad & I to take care of (both on my house, and his... we've got a new roof to put on the shop. That'll be a bit of work!
My sister called me last to night to let me know how much she enjoyed shopping yesterday with my money. Seems she and Mom got together and hit Home Depot. They found the right carpet for my house, so got it all ordered. Delivery and installation included. Came in at about what I had estimated for it. She also found a nice slate-appearance laminate designed for use in bathrooms. We'll do at least the one upstairs bathroom with it. The house final finish work is all falling into place now.
Work the past few weeks has been just moving right along on my current project. I'm getting closer to a beta version of the code that can be placed in software test. The main issue is my project has to support several future products that have not been fully designed as yet; so I have to "anticipate" a bit on their design and be able to be flexible enough to handle interfacing to these future products. Its quite a challenge, but I think I've got a good enough design implemented to cover it. Just have to fully document everything when I get close to finished...
My 9-Ball team is playing (as usual) pretty well! We're in good position after the first few weeks of the spring session. The 8-Ball team I'm on is doing darn good as well. We won this past week 4-1 over a good team from the 777 Club.
I also got a call from my dad; as well as an email. He found a deal on a new 8 foot pool table for my house at the lake in Washington. It'll be delivered and set up this next Tuesday (Valentines Day!). He told me that he and mom will be practicing so that they can take me on when I come up this summer! I am really looking forward to vacation; there's going to be lots of work for my dad & I to take care of (both on my house, and his... we've got a new roof to put on the shop. That'll be a bit of work!My sister called me last to night to let me know how much she enjoyed shopping yesterday with my money. Seems she and Mom got together and hit Home Depot. They found the right carpet for my house, so got it all ordered. Delivery and installation included. Came in at about what I had estimated for it. She also found a nice slate-appearance laminate designed for use in bathrooms. We'll do at least the one upstairs bathroom with it. The house final finish work is all falling into place now.
Work the past few weeks has been just moving right along on my current project. I'm getting closer to a beta version of the code that can be placed in software test. The main issue is my project has to support several future products that have not been fully designed as yet; so I have to "anticipate" a bit on their design and be able to be flexible enough to handle interfacing to these future products. Its quite a challenge, but I think I've got a good enough design implemented to cover it. Just have to fully document everything when I get close to finished...