It turns out that the second writing report for Instrumentation & Circuits Lab is really due on Thursday, which is quite different from tomorrow. I set up advertising with Google for Montessori World. It was a painless process and the interface for configuring advertisements was intuitive and simple to set up.

Setup a junk mail filter for my e-mail account using SpamAssassin. Junk mail is now appropriately tagged as such, and is automatically moved to a separate junk mail folder. For dinner, Nicky, Stacie and I went to Olive Garden. Unfortunately, the service was not as good as usual. Before heading to bed, Stacie and I watched Annie Hall, considered by many to be Woody Allen’s breakthrough movie.

Completely redesigned the Montessori World website, after realizing that Montessori Academy had redesigned theirs. This time around, I used color wheel relationships to obtain a brighter looking feel for the site. A great piece of shareware software called Color Schemer helped me accomplish the color scheme for the site. I fully intend to register this product for the next website that I design.

Had dinner with Nicky and Stacie at Johnny Rockets, where we used a buy one get one free coupon to get a fairly tasty burger.

I’m tired, and looking forward to this weekend. Instruments & Circuits Lab gets worse with each passing day. Today I barely scraped by and have absolutely no idea what I did. It’s all a blur. I took a break from studying in the evening, but not a break from learning, fortunately. I looked over some kernel source code once again, though I progressed very little. Primarily, I learned about the file_operation structure in fs.h, parameter passing to modules via the MODULE_PARM macro, and the gcc tagged structure extension. Finally, I moved Barik Automation to a commercial hosting provider.

The evening was spent finishing up the lab from yesterday, followed by some studying for Microelectronic Circuits. Nicky, Stacie, and I went to the shady but inexpensive and mysteriously tasty 24-hour Chinese Buddha on 14th street. It’s attached to a hotel, for god’s sake. Where one ends and the other begins, no one can say for sure.

What a horrible day. I didn’t even finish my Instrumentation & Circuits Lab filter measurements, though my TA was nice enough to give me an extension on the lab report until tomorrow evening. I spent the remainder of the day working on Homework 7 - for the same class, of course. I finally figured out how to generate a square wave using PSpice (use the VPULSE part). But my answers wouldn’t match up with the hand-calculated results for some reason. So I drove back to Georgia Tech at night to work together with my lab partner, Chris. We finished the assignment successfully right around midnight.

By the way, the trick to solving the homework is to recall that there is an initial voltage across the capacitor, IC.

The newest version of MrProject has come a long way. I registered an account with DynDNS since Michael changed the address of protomech.ath.cx. Cobb County sent us some information about their water system. Finished Homework 5 for Microelectonic Circuits. In the evening, we continued our Woody Allen marathon with Sleepers. Stacie also made an interesting dinner of Hungarian macaroni and cottage cheese with Kielbasa sausage.

I introduced Tina and Stacie to Eats, the Italian restaurant on Ponce. Stacie said she would definitely like to try it again sometime. Worked on Microelectronic Circuits homework for a few hours, before Stacie and I decided to go to Captain D’s Seafood for take-out dinner. We also rented and watched yet another excellent Woody Allen film, The Curse of the Jade Scorpion.

As an unexpected surprise, Adam came over to visit for the day. We went apartment hunting in the early morning and had a quick lunch at Subway, before joining Stacie, Tiny, Ethan, and Erin at the AMC movie theatre. We unfortunately saw The Hulk, which is, in my opinion, the movie that should never have been. I literally felt like walking of the theatre from sheer boredom.

After the movie, Stacie, Tina, and I made a feeble attempt to attend the Atlanta Braves baseball game at Turner field. Disapointed by the expensive and lacking parking, we returned home rather quickly. A good thing too, since we later discovered that the game was sold out anyway.

The night, for me anyway, concluded with a nice dinner at Buffalo’s Southwest Cafe. Nicky was our waitor. And boy, what a terrible waiter he is.