You Picked A Fine Time To Leave Me, Lucille

Well, Tuesday wasn't so bad, I guess. There weren't any feet to use for the characterization machine, so I went up to school and worked on some of my missile project and some Viscous homework. Both were off-and-on, with more progress made on the missile project than Viscous, until Heather & I broke down and asked Dr. Vakili how to do one of the problems.

At about 2:30, Jeff and I called it quits for a bit and drove up to Murfreesboro for a round of disc golf. I think the last time Jeff played was around Thanksgiving and I had played once with Jennifer over Christmas Break. It wasn't my best round, and I lost my Stingray, but I had fun. And more importantly, it was Wing Night at Buffalo Wild Wings. I love that spicy garlic sauce.

After we got back, I played phone tag with Cingular to figure out where the phone I ordered (almost 2 weeks ago!) was. It turns out that they didn't feel like sending it to me. So, I got them straightened out, eventually. Hopefully I'll have my new Samsung X-507 by Friday. Hopefully.

Today, I got up and spent the morning in the Characterization Lab. Dr. Fei wants us to reuse some feet to continue with our characterization. And he keeps trying to change our methods. From an academic point of view, I understand that we need to strive for excellence here, but I keep feeling like he's trying to back-seat-characterize. Makes me want to hit him.

Instead of eating a regular lunch today, I just had a granola bar & a snack pack. I did this to see if running on an emptier stomach is very helpful. And, at least for me, it is. I was a lot less uncomfortable today than usual. Its something I'm going to try and work on.

Finally, I realized last night that my TI-89 calculator was gone. I've referred to it for years as "Lucille." It turns out that Amy inadvertantly (so she claims) snagged it while we were working in the office yesterday. I'm just glad she's safe (Lucille).