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Despite temperature in the very high 90's during my walk, I've been having a pretty good day. At least my knees didn't give me much trouble.

I've managed to do three loads of laundry since last night, and got my presentation for tomorrow afternoon finished at last (in OOo Impress). The seeming obstacle from yesterday evening turned out to be a non-problem, if not a feature, once I got things properly figured out.

The one problem is that now I'll have to actually build the damned thing, and run some actual experiments on it. And, as I think I've mentioned, it's way out of my field: electronics, not programming. Luckily, I have coworkers who are much better at orking that particular cow, and one of them is already listed as a coinventer.

Actually, I'm not the one with problems. Our IP manager is going to have to find me a lawyer who can actually understand the thing.

Did I mention that our sysadmin wants to learn guitar? And that his office is across the hall from mine? We tracked down a chord chart via Google, and I've taught him D, A7, and G. Other folks have showed him Am, Em, and G7, and C. He's made more progress in three days than either of my kids did in a week, so there's hope. Thursday or Friday we'll head over to Gryphon so he can get some new strings, a tuner, and a book.

Gryphon is still dangerously close to the Palo Alto Fry's. The only thing that could possibly make it worse is if they were further apart but still within walking distance: right now I have to decide whether I want a walk or a shopping expedition.