It has been a very busy couple of weeks. Makayla had her cranio surgery on Monday, so between the preparation and doctor appointments last week, and keeping the kids rounded up this week, I haven’t had any extra time to blog or do much of anything online.
Just a quick rundown of what I’ve been up to in my “spare” time, is the weekend before last I attended Boise Code Camp. I didn’t have time to fully prepare my presentation, so I just attended this year rather than presenting a half-finished talk. I attended several sessions on robotics and physical computing, and they all pointed in one form or another to the Arduino microprocessor development platform. It is a very cheap but powerful method to of getting started playing with digital circuitry and interfacing a PC to the physical world. I went ahead and ordered one myself, so expect some projects to start appearing here soon.
Work was spent getting all of my loose ends tied up in preparation of being gone this week. Thank you to everybody who has allowed me to concentrate on my family right now rather than worrying about what is going on at work.
I’ve watched a couple things on the TV after getting home in the evenings from the hospital. I’ve needed something to do while doing nothing, and a good movie is a good way to do it. Mythbusters is back on, as is South Park, and I watched the movie Walking Tall.
Anyway, that is just a quick update on what is going on in my world. Makayla has been cleared to go home today, so as soon as the doctors get done with all the discharge mumbo jumbo we’ll be headed that way.