Jeff

work time

So we have our PCB soldered together, which means its time for some software! This means I get the honor of working a lot these next two weeks trying to wrap up the preliminary software for our craft. I am looking forward to getting this all working because it is going to be awesome when it works. This is a fact. I get to learn control algorithms and spend lots of time doing trial and error getting different implementations working correctly. The joy is overwhelming.

In other news, I still don’t have a job. I am going to have to begin pressing a few of my leads and see if they bear any fruit or whether I should begin the desperation effort. I really hate being at this point and still unemployed, I really hate it. I spent all night last Thursday/Friday working for my job and hopefully giving myself a better chance at working there. I just wish I could get something from them soon and stop sitting in the dark. I will probably request a status sometime this week…

I am beginning to want to work some more on this site. But I really don’t want to. I need my efforts to go towards school for now and then when I graduate and get a job (hopefully) I can spend my time working on this. I have big plans for all of this that will need some attention and a good weekend or so to work it all out. I hopefully will get the Django covered with this software engineering project we are going to do, but with that being forced into a single month of death defying programming, I am not sure how much I will fully learn.

I have a lot ahead of me and hopefully a good future. I just need to first get moving into it all. Wish me luck!

breaks over

Spring Break ended yesterday (today). I have my first post-break class tomorrow and am ready to make this final push through my school career. I am still in the job market, even though I think have a promising prospect with one of the companies I am talking to. We shall see. I have been slacking on my job (more like I have had school and stuff in the way) and I have and still need to do a lot of work this week to catch up. I got to spend 3 days in Chicago with Kim, that was a very nice vacation. Nothing special happened, we just enjoyed the city and relaxed. It was a great escape, I wouldn’t mind doing it again sometime (after I have a stable income at least). I need to begin working on the software design for our senior design project. That is the major part left, so I should probably begin putting in the hours. I think I will get around to finishing up the overhaul of this site during senior week (the week after I finish finals and before I graduate) along with the moving out and finishing school. I had my (hopefully) final back surgery this past week. It was the first where they only took stuff out (not put stuff in) so I should be more comfortable whenever I finally get these stitches removed (until then I get to have beautiful stitches up my back, just to look cool). I have a ton of things on my to-do list and just really need to get my work ethic in gear (I don’t have it in gear). I also need to put the trip photos up sometime, that will first require I upload them which is a task for me. Well, back to work or possibly just sleep.

ages

Yeah, I know its been a while since I last posted an entry. I have been busy. I am in the midst of senior design (we made a nice step last night: VIDEO ), a part-time job writing software, two work heavy classes, and the job search (still).
I get to stay pretty busy from all this and yet I enjoy what I do (for the most part). It is interesting, exciting, and fun. I am looking forward to the projects coming to completion, they are really neat. I still need to work more on the software that runs everything. Right now I have a rudimentary control on the motors (I need to clean it up and move it to the final code I am building), I am going to hopefully get working with the sensors this week and have them mapped out before break. Then I can get to the real work after I am back from break.

Speaking of break, we leave this Friday. I am going to have a “minor” surgery on Monday (a week from today) that should have me out for a day. Then on Wednesday I am going to Chicago with Kim for a few days. It will be a nice break (even though I will probably do some work while there, she will hate me for that too). Then I come back and begin the last weeks of my educational career.

I am supposed to hear back from two companies that I interviewed with in the next week or so. Hopefully I can start making some moves towards a career upon graduation (versus the current unemployment I am in) and put my degree to use. So fingers crossed that I have good news in the next few days.

Well, I need to go and head to lab to work on OS.