Not really the end of the world. The most annoying thing here is the damn people at the gate are so damn slow and the line is barely moving. I’m not even in line, just waiting for everyone else to get their plans settled and the line to get shorter before I get mine worked out.

Kiefer Sutherland was in the airport here. I had nothing else to do…

Not really much else going on right now, I guess. I’m absolutely exhausted.

Probably won’t have much the next few days, either.

In my parents’ garage.

I’ve been playing with EAGLE PCB Cad software, to create the schematic and printed circuit board to finish off my timer project. There’s a bit of a learning curve to it, but I think I’m starting to get it figured out. It’s pretty cool. Below is an unfinished schematic. I haven’t yet figured out how to tell it to connect pins to power and ground, and I haven’t put in a bunch of other stuff that will be necessary to finish. I’ll get there.

I think I’ll go watch last week’s 30 Rock now.

Not much to say, which I suppose could be why I forgot to say anything at all. It was a fairly typical day. Went to work, went bowling, went home. Didn’t bowl very well, and for some reason couldn’t concentrate or focus. Not sure why, but it was weird.

When I first got home, all I wanted to do was collapse in bed. I did for a few minutes, but then got distracted by a few more things I wanted to do with my intervalometer. The whole thing is now set up on a ProtoShield (with a mini breadboard), which is nice. I did that for a few reasons. One, to make sure I could take it all off the breadboard and wire it up again from my schematic. It’s not a terribly complicated circuit. The other reason was so I could take it home with me when I go to NY this week for Thanksgiving. My father wants to see it.

I’m looking forward to the next step, which is designing and etching the printed circuit board, so I can put the whole thing together in a small case and be done. Not that I want to stop working on it, because I’m having fun with it, but I want to be able to take it out with me and use it for photography. That was the point of making it in the first place.

My plan for today was to continue to work on my camera timer project, play some Gears of War 2, and clean up the mess that is my kitchen. Two outta three ain’t bad.

Not on the plan was burning myself on my soldering iron, but that happened, too. It’s making this post a little hard to type, but it’s really not all that bad. My left middle finger got the worst of it, and my left thumb a little bit. It happened because my chair didn’t move the way I expected on my carpet, and I lurched forward badly while reaching for it. Coulda been worse.

As for the intervalometer, the software is pretty much done now. I’m waiting on a cheap RF transmitter and receiver, to see if I’ll make it a wireless release as well. That will require more software, but likely not all that much. Also, it would just be really cool.

Okay, time to go put my hand on ice again.