Archive for March, 2016

So …

Friday, March 25th, 2016

We had a significant snowstorm earlier this week. My boss texted early Wednesday morning to let everyone know that she was closing the business for the day. Good thing. According to the traffic overlay on my iPad’s map app, the roads were not moving well most of the day. The city of Denver actually put the chain law into effect, which is something that seldom happens. It usually happens several times a year for the mountains – there’s a stretch of I-70 near work that’s a pull-off area for trucks to put chains on – but I’ve only seen snow heavy enough for Denver to require it a few times in the last 30 years. I-70 was closed all the way to the Kansas border, and I’m sure Kansas shut down some of the highway in their state.

Roads weren’t bad on Thursday – one of my coworkers reported the major road by his apartment was icy, but I only ran into trouble on the on-ramp from the major road near me to the highway. Today was no trouble, but we’re supposed to be getting more snow tonight into tomorrow. Probably go up to Frisco Sunday for some cross-country skiing.

We’ve been developing a new computer board at work – based on a Cortex M-3 processor. We got the first boards back from the assembler on Monday, and have been testing them all week. As is usual when bringing up a new board from scratch, not everything is working, but enough is working that we’re not too unhappy. Unfortunately, one thing that’s not yet working is affecting our ability to test some other parts of the system. Just the way things go, sometimes. Once we’re past this problem, odds are good that everything else will fall into place.

Happy First Day of Spring

Sunday, March 20th, 2016

Busy weekend

Sunday, March 6th, 2016

My daughter came by yesterday to go through my LPs and grab what she wanted before I got rid of them all. She disappeared with most of my comedy LPs, some folk, some ballroom dance, and a few just for the cover art. She also left with a few books (two that I gave her, and two that she borrowed), and a couple of Ethernet cables.

Marion and I went cross-country skiing at the Frisco Nordic Center today. First loop was on Crown Point, then after eating a lunch-time snack, we did a loop of the front half of the Frisco Bay trail. They had signs posted along the trails warning that moose had been seen in the area, and to avoid them. We didn’t see any moose, not that I expected to. We did, however, see a snowshoe hare, which is the first wildlife other than birds and squirrels that I’ve seen while skiing at that area. I saw a fox a few years ago while skiing at the Steamboat Nordic Center. Just don’t see much wildlife while skiing.

I’d planned on getting a haircut and doing laundry this weekend, but it just didn’t work out. No big deal, though. The longer hair helped keep my ears warm while skiing, and the laundry can be put off for a few more days – it’s not as though I’m about to run out of clean clothing.