the joys of co-op living

April 7, 2006.

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Last night I started working on the x0xb0x, the Roland TB-303 Sequencer/Synthesizer clone that I am building from a kit. I remembered soldering as being tedious and stressful, but now I find it a relaxing and satisfying diversion. Reminds me of when Daniel at LHO told me, "Anyone can feel good about themselves when soldering!" Unlike so many other activities at school, you make guaranteed progress towards a goal, and it doesn't require much thinking. Anyway, I finished building and testing the power supply and am ready to move on to the voltage controlled oscillator.

In the last 24 hours:

• Assembled and tested x0xb0x power supply, in the Secret Underground Laboratory
• Slept a lot
• Made Norwegian waffles for breakfast
• Received a shipment of books from Duffy Littlejohn
• Scoped out the Rochester and Southern rail yard
• Fraternized with vyncentvega
• Looked at my TA evaluations. They were very positive except the students say I grade homework too slowly.
• Bought stock in the company that owns Rochester and Southern, just for the hell of it
• Ate some more waffles
• Rented a truck from home depot to move some more gravel to finish our hot tub foundation
• Got this truck stuck in mud
• Hired tow truck to get Home Depot truck out of mud

So, now I am drinking strongly spiked hot chocolate. Somewhere in the above process I lost my car keys again. Boo.