Well, it seems that I don’t often write about life in general unless things are grim, so here’s a somewhat more upbeat summary of life as a whole lately:

Life’s been interesting, which is to say, it’s been up and down like a rollercoaster but never fails to beat the tedious drudgery that I’d experience without the chaos. My programming projects have been put on temporary hold lately as I’ve been focusing on World of Warcraft and my electronics project, suffering the relentless and thoroughly unwelcome, oppressive heat of the summer and other associated annoyances that come with this most loathesome of seasons, and both pondering and happily resolving a few confusions and points of contention regarding relationship-related matters. I don’t usually mention much related to my love-life on this blog for a number of reasons, but let me assure those of you who care about my mental stability that things could not be better right now on that front.

Oh, and I walked face-first into a street sign that was far too low yesterday, because the sun was in my eyes and making it hard to see where the hell I was going. Normally I wouldn’t admit this at all, but I know for a fact that people are going to ask what’s with the cuts and bruises, and I’m not nearly manly enough to be able to lie and say it was the result of a bar-fight, and you should have seen the other guy.

In conclusion: Life rocks, and my face is pretty much okay. That is all.

Phase one: Remove main control chip, sever connections to secondary control chips, then simultaneously marvel at how deep and precise the cuts from the Dremel are while realizing that you probably woke up the neighbors at six in the morning.

BX-01 Mk.I on the left (shoddy photo), and a cleaner shot of the revised and improved Mk.II on the right.

And that’s pretty much my plans for 2010 right there. This is the first of hopefully many modular test and prototyping boards. This one provides simple I/O — yes, simple, despite the tangled myriad of wires sprouting out of its frame. BX-02 will likely be a control board with TTL ICs to provide a cleaner interface for large projects.

If I ever become some kind of mad scientist — complete with evil lair and henchmen — I fully intend to include this board at some central location in my world-crushing doomsday device, purely as a homage to my humble beginnings.

That, and I think it’d be kinda funny.