I have been busy working on the PIC processor design – apart from when I have been watching some TV. I just finished watching HOUSE, and enjoyed that. It was a break from work – something I am doing too much of today, but there is not much I can do about that. I have solved one other problem with the PIC. What I was finding was that the CPU was having too much CPU used at times during processing. I have traced this to a Serial OUTPUT statement. This was taking too much CPU time and causing big problems.

I now need to get on with writing the software. And this will probably mean writing an emulator to send the correct data to the serial port so I can test things.

A few days back I was speaking to a friend of mine, talking about life, the universe and everything. The conversation got really interesting – one of those late night chats, but in this case it was over MSN. It is such a great tool to use and just talk. And talk. People who seem so together on the outside are more comfortably able to open up in such a medium… There is probably a good journal article there for some Psych professor, if it has not already been done.

With saturday approaching rather quickly, I am actually feeling fairly good about everything… Being really really busy does help a bit, but not as much as you might think.