Out with the old, in with the new.

Hobbies:
The Pathfinder campaign is on hiatus, but the Shadowrun campaigns have taken center stage. I'm currently in two groups of the latter, playing as a drone rigger in the weekly Wednesday night supergroup at the Great Lakes Gaming Emporium and as a street samurai in the less frequent Saturday sessions. I am planning on GMing for the Saturday group this summer...I'm trying to find a good reason for the PCs to crash a downtown science-fiction convention in a spectacular but hopefully nonlethal fashion. Any suggestions?

I was also able to apply the unlock codes to my Rigol DS2072. Now it's a Rigol DS2302, with a greater bandwidth, various software features, and more memory. Now I just need to get that darn PAiA synth fixed.

Art:
I'm sorry about the delays and inconsistent posting. Maybe I'll be able to stabilize things in the near future if I eliminate the backlog pile and post more scraps. My grasp of Tankaa and Ori's respective anatomies is gradually improving, maybe I'll have something quite good to show off in a month or so. I do have everything but non-armament equipment for the Metal Frames and the last few beauty shots sketched out at this point, so I'll be back to spacecraft and hardware soon too.

Academics:
At the end of this semester, I should only need another sixteen credit hours for my Master's degree. While course scheduling does not open up until the first of April, I'm pretty sure I'll be doing Linear Systems and Power Systems Operations in the fall and continuing on to High Power Electronics or Electric Machines and Power Systems Control in the spring, followed by graduation and the Fundamentals of Engineering Exam.

In related news, this take-home Power Electronics II midterm is a pain, but I'm finally making a divot in it. Just one problem and the extra credit problem are left.

Employment:
Keithley Instruments (A Tetronix Company, subsidiary of the Danaher Corporation) has made me an offer. Even though it involves instrumentation applications work instead of power, I'm happy to have six months of work and another long-term option in Cleveland. It beat out NASA and RTA, as the latter two wouldn't have made an offer until Mid-April. I do miss RTA's benefits and engineering culture in spite of the lower base pay, but I need some bench and measurement time to see if I'd rather do project management