What A Day
The parts for Heek showed up in the past few days, with the sheet aluminum and circuit boards arriving this morning. I soldered up the master board and connected it to the bread boarded player controller I have and everything worked. But I also discovered something. It turns out that DigiKey somehow gave me too few of one important part. I ordered 8 of the i/o expander chips, and they sent me 2; but they labeled the bag as having 8. Great. Thankfully, they are good people and a quick phone call was all I needed to get them to ship me the other 6. It was too late to get them out today, unfortunately, but they’ll go out on Monday. They even offered however fast I needed them, but in the end I went with the same old priority mail (takes 3 days to get here every time) so I don’t have to worry about signing. All at their expense, of course.
My food just arrived, but the guy forgot the baclava. Ironically, I only ordered the baclava so it would be above their minimum delivery amount. I would be fine without it, but now he’s going back to get it.
Finally, I just had a conversation with my dad. He wanted to know how my classes were going, and I commented on how I keep getting into these interesting conversations with Prof. Bianchi (digital music courses). We had an interesting debate about how good WPI is (or can be) for people trying to be artists, with me saying how if you want to be an artist and have no prior skill, WPI is not the place to go. At least, not on its own, and not yet. Don’t get me wrong, I love IMGD, but without my CDIA background, WPI wouldn’t be enough on the art side.
My dad didn’t get it, and I said ‘why do you think I went to the CDIA first?’. I figured he understood by now, but his response was ‘I have no idea’. WTH?! He still doesn’t get why I did it. Somehow, I feel like this is always going to be the case and its just kind of aggravating. Thankfully, said delivery man arrived before the conversation could turn into an attempt to explain it again.
Interestingly, Bianchi does some work as a lecturer of some sort at the CDIA. Small world, eh? ;p
-K
imagine said,
July 4, 2009 @ 9:57 am
Just let it go with Dad. He’s not going to get it. There are aspects of my life like that which he just doesn’t get either. Why I did this instead of that etc etc. He has a plan clearly mapped out in his head for each of us, and we keep deviating from it. (shock!) If after a conversation or two trying to explain he refuses to get it, it’s usually easier to drop it, and just tell him about the other parts.
Kiirel said,
July 6, 2009 @ 1:53 am
Yeah, that’s probably the best plan. At least he didn’t try to stop me from doing it (well, he did, but then I agreed to go to college which was the right choice anyway ;p)