Well, I finished up Chapter 11 on Saturday, but it's a weak chapter. I may need to go back and beef it up a bit... in my copious free time.
Hah! Right. Let me stop chuckling over that little joke before I go on.
Okay.
What I've been doing mostly these days is dragging my sorry self around in a half-asleep daze. I've been tired a lot lately and it's made it hard to stay focused. Spring isn't helping -- the beautiful weather, mixed in with thunderous storms, isn't helping me concentrate.
All in all, I don't seem to be any more ahead or behind on most of my projects right now. Except W.Eng. Apparently we stopped putting the project and workspace files on the CVS. I remember that now, they were messing us up because Pat and I had different environment layouts, mostly just around the placement of our parser libraries. Anyway, it can take ages to rework all of those dependencies and junk so I didn't get anywhere. I finally remembered to e-mail Pat to get them on Sunday night.
Of course, it wasn't all procrastination this weekend. I finished the last four Anthropology labs (finally) though I didn't have time to study for the next test. Fortunately, this isn't a test week, so that's not a bad thing. And like I said above, I finished and sent out Chapter 11.
What I didn't do was start Chapter 12 which is about, I dunno, electric switches like transistors and stuff, and integrated circuits or something. I find out when I start.
I was beginning to worry about the content of this book. After all, it's about robotics but all of my time has been spent on mechanics and electronics. Did I forget to schedule any robot control chapters? That would be lame.
But no, looking ahead in the outline, it seems the last third of the book is about control, which is where the real glory of robotics lies.
I don't know of those chapters will be easier or harder, though. I just hope I can make them interesting and on time.
Now if I can just stay awake long enough to do something useful at work today. It's Monday, so that could get interesting. Though I have a cup of nasty office coffee to help me out.
Posted by Edwin at April 12, 2004 02:39 PM