I haven\u2019t been writing here so much. At first, it was because I was frantically busy, trying to impress clients with knowledge by reading ahead in the textbook the night before. Then there was a wedding which I maybe over-planned because that\u2019s what I do when nervous (it was great, we stuck to plan A nearly the whole time; I probably didn\u2019t need to create plan N, let alone Q).<\/p>\n
I finished with my clients the week before the wedding. I\u2019d rather do something closer to my skillset. I like learning but I want to build closer to what I already know instead of continuing to cantilever ever more esoteric information.<\/p>\n
I\u2019ve been contract-free for a couple weeks now. That used to freak me out. I was ok for one week but not much more than that: OMG, will I ever find work again?!?<\/p>\n
As I did the accounting, I found that the business can pay us for the rest of the year with the money we have in the bank (not even counting outstanding invoices). Sweet! I have three potential clients starting in the New Year, probably one will work out.<\/p>\n
And, yet, I still didn\u2019t write. There was hackaday judging but that finished a while ago, writing up my thoughts didn\u2019t talk all that long since I had plenty of notes. There was some planning involved with my birthday party (cake, check; guests, check; champagne, check; flowers, check; planning done!).<\/p>\n
I did go to a class from ST Microelectronics, acquiring an M0+ discovery board,\u00a0 M0+ nucleo board with a BTLE daughter card. That was interesting. I wanted more \u201chow to do low energy\u201d and they had \u201clook at our super shiney parts you can use to do low energy\u201d. There were some hints but nothing new to me (sleep early, sleep often, sleep deeply). I also got a potential podcast guest to talk about Cortex processors but he was baffled by the idea people would listen to a whole hour of reasonably technical information. (Yes, this does concern me, we\u2019ll see.)<\/p>\n
And now I\u2019m at a class about 3D printing, getting terrible and expensive ideas about things to buy for our business. This afternoon, I plan to attend a class about wearables and electronic textiles (stretchy conductors!). I\u2019m here on a press pass (boggle), mostly signed up to attend because I have free time and I\u2019m procrastinating about other things.<\/p>\n
Both SOLID and the embedded systems conference have opened their call for speaking proposals. These are both \u201cin my wheelhouse\u201d (I hate that phrase but I find myself using it far too much, I suppose it allows me to say \u201cin my area of subject matter expertise\u201d without sounding like a total nerd). I don\u2019t have a plan for them. I\u2019m tempted to take a chapter from my book and talk about it. I\u2019m tempted to compile a bunch of low power tips and making a presentation. I thought about updating my network comparison presentation (see Element14 text version<\/a>). But these all seem like so much work. Can\u2019t we just have a podcast about it?<\/p>\n