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Sep. 5th, 2018 09:29 pmMan today was overwhelming.
Last night just after midnight a big storm came through, with a lot of rain. That segued into a lot of lightning and thunder, including at least two hits to the water tower in the neighbor's back yard. This upset Monty, who started pacing and trying to hide.
She may also have been feeling the aspirin we gave her for her sore hips after yesterday's hike, because after some pacing, she began throwing up, and after a bit of that, I got up and sat with her out in the living room. Her intestines would make horrible noises and then she'd throw up, and then she'd settle back down for fifteen minutes before doing it again.
That took up about two hours in the middle of the night.
I'm really tired.
Today at work we spent the whole time in the lab, desperately working on my project, trying to get it working. We discovered: the clock line from the interface to the part wasn't connected, because the person designing the center of the board gave it a different name than the person designing the outside of the board, and the person laying out the board didn't realize they should be connected; the interface software swaps the high and low byte silently; a problem in the silicon means unpowered chips latch interface pins to ground so nothing else on the communication bus can talk; and the hardware that signals a chip to respond is shared among multiple chips so they all try to talk at once.
That represents about seven hours of labwork.
But about half an hour before the end of the day, we got it working, which is the culmination of about a month worth of debug.
My next several days are going to be very busy, but they should at least be deterministic now.
Last night just after midnight a big storm came through, with a lot of rain. That segued into a lot of lightning and thunder, including at least two hits to the water tower in the neighbor's back yard. This upset Monty, who started pacing and trying to hide.
She may also have been feeling the aspirin we gave her for her sore hips after yesterday's hike, because after some pacing, she began throwing up, and after a bit of that, I got up and sat with her out in the living room. Her intestines would make horrible noises and then she'd throw up, and then she'd settle back down for fifteen minutes before doing it again.
That took up about two hours in the middle of the night.
I'm really tired.
Today at work we spent the whole time in the lab, desperately working on my project, trying to get it working. We discovered: the clock line from the interface to the part wasn't connected, because the person designing the center of the board gave it a different name than the person designing the outside of the board, and the person laying out the board didn't realize they should be connected; the interface software swaps the high and low byte silently; a problem in the silicon means unpowered chips latch interface pins to ground so nothing else on the communication bus can talk; and the hardware that signals a chip to respond is shared among multiple chips so they all try to talk at once.
That represents about seven hours of labwork.
But about half an hour before the end of the day, we got it working, which is the culmination of about a month worth of debug.
My next several days are going to be very busy, but they should at least be deterministic now.
