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Sat, 30 Dec 2006
...but no boxcar for me.
Since I worked through Christmas vacation this year, I'm only now beginning any kind of break, and that's only because I already had a flight and wouldn't even consider cancelling it. At the moment I'm in Denver waiting to connect to Oakland, where Katherine will also be arriving later this evening. Woot!
Christmas this year was actually pretty damn good despite the fact that I worked. By some stroke of luck, Christine was in town visiting her aunt and uncle, so we hung out when she arrived. Then, in a demonstration of undeserved kindness, Christine et al invited me to celebrate Christmas dinner with them. Delicious, and muchly appreciated.
By way of repayment, I showed Christine my three favorite places in Austin: my office (hah!), Sullivan's Steakhouse, and the The Gingerman. Oh yeah, and I came back from an amazing almost defeat at darts to win on two sudden death rounds. Ha HA!
No really firm plans for New Year's Eve yet, except that we're hitting Chez Panisse early for some grub. In your face, Marissa!
Now back to watching the Giants pummel the Redskins in a shitty sports bar in DIA...
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Mon, 18 Dec 2006
lord of the stare, heck of a guy
Today at work I'm crunching along on some layout or verilog or something when I get a call from Jeff. "Have you seen the eye? Come to my office, quick, before it disappears."
Apparently someone decided to project a very bright, very creepy eye onto the side of the water treatment plant's tower. Now I'm feeling like the next logical step is a laser projection vector graphics system so we can play asteroids.
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Thu, 14 Dec 2006Ahh, the final push for tapeout, that time of year when a young man's fancy turns to digital synthesis, place and route, top-level simulations, ESD structures, and—of course—layout.
I hope you'll pardon the fact that I haven't blogged in a month and a half. I've been embroiled with not one, not two, but three tapeouts of three completely separate parts. The last, "mine" (inasmuch as I am the project leader), is going to take a miracle to come out before Christmas, and Herculean effort to keep it from pushing more than a few days past. At this point I'm sure that Christmas will be spent poring over DRC violations (if I'm lucky and we're at top-level DRC). Such is the level of my dedication. Thank you, Catholic schools: you really taught me how important it is to hate myself.
So yeah, after that I'm driving to Iowa for a couple days before heading to Cali on the 30th to spend New Year's with Katherine. Given that I haven't seen her since Thanksgiving, and considering that both of us have had rough Decembers, that will be a relief in several respects.
In other news: Ariel accepted an offer from SiLabs, so he'll be starting at the end of January. Yeah, bitches! Now the rest of y'all have to move here. It'll be bad ass.
Ahh yes, one last thing: someone (not me, honestly) came up with a more realistic schedule for my project than the one we'd been officially working from. Note that, much to my chagrin, we haven't actually hit the "Act of God" phase quite yet. We'll get there soon, I'm sure...
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