Office construction done

Today I finished painting the closet door frame, the window, and the area around the new power outlets. Basically, these were the last construction related tasks that I had put off for the past month. Now I just need to organize my crap. And I have lots of crap.

Here is my workspace:

To the left of my desk I have a peninsula for extra desk space.

Still here

I've been very busy with some consulting work.

Check out this blog, Kitchen Patrol. A friend of mine seems to be having kitchen issues.

Progress

This weekend I started to get my office setup again. Next week I need to give a talk to a company in Maryland and I need to work on the presentation. Like any good grad student, I procrastinated. One of the things you learn to do in grad school is to procrastinate productively.

So today:

• I patched the kernel for the Lyrtech SFFSDR board with the Davinci NAND flash driver, setup the SFFSDR board, and tested the kernel. Lot's of progress, but I haven't quite got it working. I suspect I need to read up on setting the NAND controller registers properly.
• Started finishing the wall where I added a bunch of AC outlets.
• Read about some algorithms for FM demodulation
• Filled out the rebate form from the PS3 purchase. (They'll send me 5 blu-ray DVD's)
• Took the cardboard from the office furniture to recycling.
• Started collecting information on the ML-403 evaluation board from Xilinx.
• Responded to some emails that needed responses.
• Looked for an Open Office template for my slides.
• Started working on the presentation.

A fine day of procrastination!

Almost done painting

The walls are finished. Only the window frames and doors need work now. This allowed me to do the flooring. Here is a picture just before I finished the floor.

Now I am waiting for some furniture I ordered to arrive so I can setup my office again and get back to work. I need to do some testing of the Angstrom release candidates on the OMAP starter kit. I also need to get Angstrom running on the Xilinx ml403 evaluation board in the next few weeks.

Painting

I hate painting.

I'm remodeling the room in our house I use as an office. This needed doing several years ago when we moved in, but things were to chaotic at the time. The room has old wood panelling, the kind used to finish a house when you were running out of time and money in the late 50's.

Painting over this panelling will brighten up a room dramatically, but the finish tends to bleed through latex primers badly, this explains why the project is taking so long. I am up to four coats of primer now and ready to apply the final coats.

After painting, I am laying down fake wood floors. This should go much better than the painting work.

I ordered a cube style desk with peninsula this should give me plenty of desk space to fiddle with small embedded systems :) Or more space to clutter.

Hopefully, after Christmas I am back to full speed and have found some work to pay for all this.

Via Ferrata

I'm scared of heights. So is my friend Dave. See Dave climb a ladder on a via ferrata in Italy.



But we like to do exposed things anyway. There are no shots showing how high we are, because I can't look down. That is how I cope in "airy" situations.

Defense

This sums things up.