Had distractions. Was trying to get a demo box with my flasher circuit working for one family confab. I finished Test Article 4, finding an interesting and possibly useful failure mode along the way. Useful, that is, once I fully understand it. I bought some materials for working with Surface Mount devices and got to the point where I could solder the beasties (that's 2.5mm x 2.7mm x 3.2mm) well enough, then started to assemble the final board.
And hit a failure mode that has me flummoxed. I need to spend serious time trying to figure it out. There'll probably be a Blinding Flash of the Obvious at some point. And I haven't begun cutting the openings in the housing for it. That's the sort of careful work I usually muff.
Meanwhile, I learned a new word just when I needed it. Well, a new phrase: "false document". It means a work (eg. a book) that exists only as a name within a work of fiction. Like an Encyclopedia Galactica, or Fleetrow's Guide to the Universe. Or The True and Complete Record of the Instructive Adventures of the Daring and Sagacious Count Hulhausen Lundersot, And of His Life and Times. Only, as you know, I am trying to put a bit of that fictional work, complete with the Count's own recounting, and the sorcero-cinematic-virtual-reality experience thereof, into my own work of fiction. (Maybe in another fragment, I could have the Count peruse a copy of one volume of the supposedly apocryphal Sorcerer's Progress. Only I'm not sure my cheek is large enough for that kind of tongue.)
I spend Wednesday eve reading a trade paper copy of The Secrets of Story. I recommend it HIGHLY to everyone here. It is a rapid-fire discharge of Blinding Flashes of the Obvious, complete with stunning afterimages thereof.
I'll be visiting my brother for a few days starting 12/10.
I'm way behind in reviews as well as in work. Amy and Rebecca, you should expect reviews within about 20 hours. Oh, and Amy, I think you used tomato sauce before. Just remember that the tomato is a New World plant.
Now for some rest.
