Turkey time! My company is handing out free turkeys today to all of their employees, how cool is that (well, unless you're a vegetarian like my friend Rohit, then it's not so exciting). In other news, I just got back from a little vacation down in Lawrenceville, IL (what do you mean you've never heard of Lawrenceville?), so wander by flickr if you want to see the snaps.

Hello, my name is Jacqueline, and I'm an idiot. For the past two full days, I've been trying to figure out what was wrong with the circuit I'm supposed to be testing (I didn't design it, but I did the layout and ordered the boards and the parts and everything). It really doesn't work at all, when you turn on the power, bad things happen, like smoke. Well, after two days of hard work on the part of the very very patient tech guy (he spent all of yesterday unsoldering things, testing, resoldering, testing, etc), one of my peers has brought to my attention a teensy-weensie error. I switched the power and ground pins. On three chips. I want to crawl under my desk and hide...