Every so often, after an amazingly terrible Monday, one needs some stress relief. Today I took a 10 minute break and fabricated one of those 555-timer blinking LED circuits on my tiny proto-board. The “hello world” of circuits; so confidence building, so classic. Oh how it is a wondrous thing, sitting there in my window, blinking its little red LED away.

Ah the therapy of circuit construction.

Now back to the paper writing, schoolwork, and other sundry tasks…