Well, I’m winding down my last week of freedom before starting the new job on Monday. I’ve been playing plenty of frisbee, seeing some great movies, eating well, and even doing a little PCB layout. I am looking forward to working, though – it’ll be nice to be back in a rhythm and have regular human interaction. Oh, and the paycheck thing is sounding pretty nice, too.
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I spent the better part of my afternoon reassembling my D70 after trying to fix the aforementioned CHA bug. You can read a bit about it here. So far, so good – no more errors!
I happened to be browsing his blog when Bunnie posted Name that Ware December 2007. I spent about an hour thinking and researching what it could be, and think I figured it out. Unfortunately, I was tired, and got excited about figuring it out, so my comments are pretty incoherent – too bad. Whether I win the Chumby or not, I had a good time playing.
Well, after I found some instructions for taking apart the D70, I figured I’d give cleaning the CF card contacts a shot before sending it off for professional help. It’s been out-of-warranty for a couple years now, and I’m usually okay at this kind of thing (at the very least, not breaking it). So my camera is currently in many pieces on my desk, but it looks doable. I have to de-solder a metal housing from a circuit board to get at the CF card contacts, but that’ll be the worst of it.
In my remaining week before starting the new job, I’m hoping to finish the camera repair, send the robot arm PCB out for fabrication, and possibly finish up the site redesign. We’ll see how it goes.
Dinner on New Year’s turned out quite well – the crab cakes were fantastic, and the lemon mousse turned out great. Sarah brought back homegrown, organic lemons from her parents’ farm in Maine, and they really made the dish. I ran the leftover mousse through my ice cream maker yesterday – no surprise that it was quite tasty.
Tuesday’s dinner was almost as good, though slightly less home-cooked. On an excellent recommendation from a (Taiwanese) native, I went with some friends to Jack’s Tapas, an oddly named Taiwanese restaurant in the U District. Especially good was the Chinese Sesame and Scallion Layered Bread, though really, everything was great.