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Over the last few days I have had a creeping BFO*: I need to pay more attention the weaknesses of characters I'm going to bring in than to their strengths.  I have to figure out just how to work with this.

*Blinding Flash of the Obvious

http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20111019

And, just for the punchline, http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20111024

"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times."

And the comma joins independent clauses, too!

Sounds like your vacation paid you for the time and effort, if not for the lucre.

I've been chasing some distractions, and learning more about how electronic components behave at low current levels.  And under other interesting circumstances.  I spent four days trying to figure out WHAT was happening and HOW it could be happening ... and then remembered that MOSFETs have a Miller capacitance too ... and learned that it's a sneaky son of a so-and-so that gets LARGER as the device turns on and SMALLER as it turns off ... with interesting consequences.  (Look up Miller Effect.)
I've also been wrangling some network problems, soon to be fixed, I hope.

On my problems with Pausonallie: She's changed since I invented her.  I just had the idea of her being the True Heir of G-Aunt Maugram, just now coming into her own.  Have to think.

Have (metric) tonnes of reviews to catch up on.

Where is NJC t?  What is he about?  Whither dost he wander?

Side projects are popping up more side alleys than any sorcerer's nightmare.  I need, eventually, to get to project A.  But it will help to do project B first, both because having B will help with A and because if I don't get B outt of the way, it will be in my way while I work on A.  And then ...

In thinking about how to test B under severe-but-realistic load, I've been thinking about project C.  Which started small, but quickly became interesting.  I spent most of yesterday filling pages with algebra to understand the non-linearities of parallel-series combinations of fixed and variable resistors (both as potentiometers and as rheostats).  My bladder woke me overnight and as I took care of business it occurred to me that I could (probably) finesse the problem with current sources.  Looks workable, but will be ten hours or more of lab work.  LATER.  I just now thought of a useful mod for project B.  I'll try to do it.  And project C has a detail to be worked out using an RC network to drive a MOSFET to provide a brief, fast reset current to the timing circuit on each side of an astable multivibrator.  (The MOSFET's gate may be approximated as a capacitance that depends on the voltage on its drain terminal.)

I've got a circuit layout for project B to breadboard and test.  I need to do a clean drawing of the layout, and I need to test it in parts: Current source, three-way current mirror, and voltage source.  The voltage source first with only the voiltage output, on the circuit board, and then with the power block (not complete yet) including both the voltage output and the current bootstrap transistors.

And then I need to test it.  Unfortunately, I passed up the chance to stock up on 5- and 10-ohm 10-watt sand-cased power resistors.

And, oh, yes, The Rockpile.

You  -have- heard of the Darwin Awards?

If the story is good enough, the 'bad' style might be accepted as good, at least long enough to garner a slew of imitators.

Post in a group with points and reciprocate when you get reviews.  Look for one of the fantasy related groups to call home and start a forum thread.

And you have to make the reader fall for it

I'm starting on Suin's [Surviving Fifteen.  Reviewed Ch's 1 (re-revised version) and 2.

A few edits to the scene in The Rockpile.  I hope to get a couple of earlier scenes into it in the next day or so.

The megavolcano is the most likely scenario.  If you want MASSIVE irony, let it be triggered by an attempt to bleed off the heat (hope to delay the eruption by 10,000s of years) and use it for carbon-free geothermal.

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