Not much posting tonight either...
The muse is taking a vacation and Jen is out of town for a week so I have to take care of the Farm by myself.
Those Goats are demanding I tell you -- if it's not the poor television reception in their barn (I have to hold the rabbit ears
just so to get proper reception for the Oprah show) it's the quality of the bon-bons they tell me that Jen feeds them. I have to fly them in fresh from Paris daily. I have not gotten them the Plasma Screen they want so they are sulking.
And don't get me started on the Ducks.
Little martinets.
Outside of that, school is awesome -- getting to the point where I can sit down to a blueprint and write the native CNC machine code to produce the part for some fairly complex scenarios (drilling and tapping, pocket milling, repetitive drilling using subroutines). My plane trig is coming back nicely -- some of the assignments will have one leg of a triangle measured and an angle specified and we need to find the other two legs and two angles.
A couple decades of writing programs has helped me a lot but it's interesting as the teacher has never heard about code reuse, programming editors, macros, structured programming, using lots and lots of comments, etc... I am doing this and he is grumbling a bit but my stuff runs just as fast as everyone else's so there is no complaint.
I'll have pics of the shop posted in a few days.
Dave
Posted by DaveH at September 26, 2006 10:03 PM