Jeeperdoodles!

Well, its been a few days. Mostly I've been lazy, but I also felt like any one day didn't warrant a blog entry since Wednesday.

Thursday was a normal day of classes. We dodged homework in Mechanical Design (woohoo!) but Dr. Dekken did mention that we might possibly think about discussing a probable exam sometime in the not-too-distant forseeable future (no woohoo!). Gloyer rambled, but about missiles. And the man tried to correct me regarding carbon fiber manufacturing methods. I can sit through a class, but I will not be talked down to by someone with a mullet. Finally, Viscous Flow as a wonderful excercise in non-dimensionalizing equations. Everyone always talks how they're important and significant and the pinnacle of theory, but I'm not impressed. I spent the evening on some homework. Jeff and I fixed a dinner fit for royalty: garlic-herb marinated chicken (me), sour cream & chives mashed potates (boxed), and cornbread (Jeff). Tasty.

On Friday, I spent the morning in the lab characterizing fibers, trying to figure out what the heck Dr. Fei is doing, avoiding Dr. Fei, and trying not to swear too loudly at the characterization machine. I cut out around 2:00, hit the gym, and vegetated through most of the afternoon. Later, Jeff and watched Enemy at the Gates (pretty good, lots and lots of shooting), and Employee of the Month (a solid 7-out-of-10 comedy).

Saturday was actually kind of productive. I finished the most recent set of Viscous homework (I need to work on the stuff he assigned on Thursday, but I've got a while). Then, I got my trajectory code working. It turns out I was dividing by mass in two places, which was making everything crazy. But it got fixed. Later, Jeff and I watched the 80's classic Who Framed Roger Rabbit. It had been forever since I've seen it, and its a riot. The shorts included on the DVD were awesome too.

Today, I got up went to see my cousin Tracy play in a volleyball tournament at the Webb School in Bell Buckle, TN. If any of you thought that Tullahoma was a hick town in the middle of nowhere, I invite you to explore the cosmopolitan experience that is Bell Buckle. All I have to say is, "wow." Anyway, Tracy's team won the tournament. That made getting up more bearable.

After I got back, I added the proper mass profile to the trajectory program and started getting answers. Right now I have a single stage solution, with a missile that weighs less than 5000 lbs that reaches the target range and altitude. However, its moving at several THOUSAND miles per hour. In a word: undesireable. I need to start realistically acounting for drag (including my drag brakes). That's on the agenda for tomorrow.

Finally, jeeperdoodles.