So, How 'Bout Them UAVs?

My 8:00 class is now my 7:45 class. That's not good, but its really not much more awful than 8:00. It really just means that Dr. Dekken's overages will be even more offensive. I should charge him like the cell phone companies do. Yeah, that's the ticket.

Tactical Missiles is a pretty interesting class, and the first project is going to be really cool, once Gloyer tells us what to do. I say that half-joking; its really starting to bother me that he hasn't given us official project requirements. I guess I'll have to beat that out of him on Monday.

Today was our first meeting for Viscous Flow; it seems that Dr. Vakili had better things to do last week. Oh well; we made a fairly smooth transition from Inviscid. There's a solid core of students from AE 511, with a few new faces, like Hot Rod and Motown.* I had to fight to get my seat from last semester (not really, but there was a pretty tense stare-down). The Superfriends are only at half-strength in there, but we do have Rich the Canadian Spy & Meester Vanhorn to fill the void. Its not the same though.

The seminar today was pretty cool. The topic was the Air Force's Research Lab's goals, objectives, and how cool UAV (un-manned air vehicles) are. The presenter (a colonel in charge of the AFRL/VA ("VA" means "Air Vehicles," yeah, I know) was very well spoken. However, I suspect that he may too be a Canadian spy due to his use of the word "windscreen" in place of "windshield." Suspicious indeed.

Jeff and I attempted some home-dryer repair today, and I sucessfully removed the thermal resistor doohickey. Dad coached me through it, and hopefully we'll just have to replace that and be done with it. Otherwise, its either the laundromat or drying stuff in the bathroom again.

* This is not a final nickname; we will try and find out the real name and base the nickname off of this. But, it's Motown for now.