Laissez Les Bons Temps Rouler

It's French, but its really Cajun. That makes it ok. Anyway, happy Mardi Gras.

Yesterday, we dodged homework in Mechanical Design but heard more talk of a possible test. In Missiles, Gloyer gave us mardi gras beads that he rescued from his flooded property down in Mississippi. I sure hope he washed them. He then proceeded to redefine our project again for the umpteenth time, which is starting to get really annoying. I wore my beads to Viscous, and had an interesting conversation with Rich the Canadian Spy (I mean "Guy"). He asked what was up with the beads, and I explained that tomorrow (today) was Mardi Gras. So I said to have a good "Fat Tuesday." Here's where it gets a little weird - he didn't know that "mardi gras" was French for "fat tuesday." He grew up and is a citizen of Canada, who's other official language is French. I would have thought that it would have come up. He even mentioned a cajun restaurant called Fat Tuesdays, which served fried alligator. And then Dr. Vakili volunteered that it tasted like chicken, and so do frog legs (which can be found at the UTSI dinning hall on occassion). Then he assigned homework - curses!

Today I went up to school to do some characterization...hopefully the last for a little while. As it turns out, we're out of feet (the plastic tabs that we fix the fibers on to put in the machine). So, no feet = no characterization = happy Lee. I'll spend tomorrow doing Missiles work instead. Good times.

Jeff and I celebrated Mardi Gras by fixing tacos for dinner. We don't know any French recipes, and we wanted tacos anyway, so it worked out.

I'm close to having a GUI (Graphical User Interface) for my missile program. That'll come in handy in short order.

Finally, UTSI chili is pretty tasty. It doesn't have corn in it at all.