Form Of: An Ice Menorah!

I met in early today to meet with Dr. Vakili about some new changes to the carbon fiber project. A week or so ago, He had asked Heather to look into designing a conveyor belt to attach to the Spinning equipment, and for me to look into a "roving" machine (roving as in psuedo-rope, not ambling around). For these assignments, I observed the Wally Rule as taught to me by Mike Melzig - "90% of all projects are cancelled within 10 days, so don't do anything inside of 10 days." And it totally paid-off: Pete found a $70 conveyor belt that Dr. Vakili wants us to go check out next week, and never mind about the roving. I do have some actuall research to be doing, and to keep Dr. Vakili posted on it. Overall, it was worth driving up to school early.

Sometime around lunch, I started developing one of those sinus headaches that makes your stomach flip-flop. So that was bad enough, and then I went to Heat Transfer. The class itself wasn't so bad, but it was about 10 degrees too warm. That did not mix well with the headache and mutinous stomach I was nursing. If Antar had gone much over the appointed 75 minutes, I think I would have made a scene.

Laying down after some benedryl and tums made everything better though. I wound up doing a little cleaning before dinner, because Nan & Pop and Mom are driving up to visit tomorrow. I'll just have to make sure Jeff stays in his room, maybe I'll give him a Baby Ruth bar. I'll pay a dollar to whoever catches that reference and comments first.

Dr. Who was fine tonight. The show is really growing on me, but its very British (everything, not just the humor) so you really have to pay attention to follow it. Battlestar Galactica was probably the worst episode of the season, but this has been a spectacular season so far. The show dealt with escaping occupation through last week (with some of the awesomest pyschotic acts of bravery ever) and this week they dealt with collaborators. For a sci-fi show that does a really good job of portraying real people, they were going to have to do this episode at some point. It was a good hour, but last week's spectacle is a near-impossible act to follow.

Jeff posts a really good debate regarding tonight's Law & Order. My opinion on the matter is this: No one sells sub-par equipment to my country's soldiers on my watch. No one, No excuses.