| | I hate this weather..... This dark, gloomy, rainy weather. A few weeks ago it was so cold I ALMOST broke out the winter coat but now its nice and warm again and the fleece is warm enough. Ideally I get my handwarmer to work but I think I might get a few of the chemical handwarmers to throw into the bag just in case.
So anyways, no exams this week. First week since the end of September that I don't have an exam. Of course thats because finals start next week. Four finals, possible 5. Donetski said that anyone that failed the last exam would have to take the final because he simply can't pass anyone that can't design counters with various flip flops. I think I passed though. I mean in theory designing with flip flops is easy. Just get the state table from a state diagram and get the excitation values. Then use that to get K-maps and from the K maps you get the input equation for the flip flops. My synchronous binary multiplier didn't work last Thursday.... I don't feel too bad though. I mean the lab section before us only one group got their circuit to work. In my lab section basically no one had a working circuit and after 30 mins the only groups left were myself and Abhi and Frank with Chris. Hell, the only reason why Frank was still there was because I gave him my circuit diagram. I Abhi tried building the circuit on the CADET board via the circuit diagram and I built it on my breadboard via chip pinout. I took all 3.5 hours slowly building my circuit to make sure I didn't make any wiring mistakes. 15 mins into the next lab section (basically no one in that section had anything either so there was plenty of stations for us to stay late) Abhi and Frank kept on rushing me and so we stuck the inputs and outputs into my circuit and it didn't work! I debuged my circuit during the weekend and found that I was missing a wire..... So hopefully on Thursday it'll work fine. Obviously Donetski knew that most people wouldn't get the circuit because he gave us two weeks to do this lab and said that even if we didn't get a working circuit we would get partial credit for whatever we did as long as we explained what happened in the lab report.
So anyways, second range trip for the Rifle Club is this coming Friday and Saturday. I can't wait (or maybe I can since the sooner the range trip comes, the sooner finals come, but then the sooner winter break comes!). I'm determined to shoot much better than I did last time and I brought part of my dumbbell set with me to work out my forearms so they won't die after such a short time....
Played pool last Thursday with Jen. It was fun. She had to leave after an hour or so though but then Simon and Matt came down and we ended up playing 9 ball till midnight. I think I'm starting to get my stroke back though. Towards the end I was stroking nice and smoothly and making most of my shots and getting good position. I guess thats the bad thing about not having a textbook stroke and stuff. If I don't play seriously for a long time I just lose it and it takes a while before I can get it back...
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