Brief update

I've been digging into Thesis all week, implementing the many ideas and potential solutions that emerged from my "toaster". This is the first day I've even briefly looked at anything other than email or Matlab. Thanks to all the people sending me tech post ideas; they are queued and I'll get back to posting them next week when I try to finish editing four papers to finally get them off my desk and back into the review process.

Hopefully there will be only one more data collection set to generate test data (maybe next week if things go well today) before I make final tweaks and start running "live" tests. Going live means, in this case, collecting data that will be used in the final dissertation as validation of the method. At that point, I will be writing the document up in preparation for an early fall defense, the exact date depending on when the dissertation gets through the editing process. There is a light at the end of the tunnel and it looks more like sunshine than the headlamp of a locomotive.


You may now return to your regularly scheduled life, already in progress, unless any of you have passed on while reading this.