Week of May 7, 2007

Good:
1. Jen was able to send out all of the baby announcements. They turned out really well - at least I thought so - although I am a little biased.
2. We started to repaint Keegan's room. I think it is going to take us longer than expected. Jen picked out a very light blue to go over the pink. So it is taking a bit of paint to cover the pink. In addition there is much more detail work with the chair rail. Jen is attempting to repaint the stripes as well. We started so that is good.
3. In the effort to respin the 32Port Fibre Channel Switch we built a proto-type card. We got the proto card built. It looks good. We fired it up and it kind of worked. We have to program one part - which we are working on. Once we get that part programmed we will be able to evaluate the performance of the Retimer which will hopefully indicate that we can continue with the respin.

Bad:
1. For work I missed a meeting on throughput. I don't really have an excuse - basically I forgot about it. It probably wouldn't have been so bad however nobody else on our program showed up for it either other than our program manager. Since this is our number one priority it was kind of bad that I missed it. I got a talking to. I'm okay with it - I'm rather burned out on the program in general and throughput in particular. I don't feel bad about the reprimand because I deserved it. Hopefully with time I'll get remotivated.
2. Keegan has been feeling very gassy towards the end of the week. We're not sure of the exact cause. Jen did feed him some milk she had frozen so maybe it was something she ate before she really started to watch what she ate.
3. Jen's still feeling a little sore. Her stitches should be dissolving anytime now. That will be a relief for her.