Happy Pi Day. No party this year, but I'm celebrating. I think I'll push my known digits up from 20 to 30.

This week is wonderful. I hope that I can live more of my life like I have this week. Everyday has been busy and interesting, with something new each time.

Monday was rocket team. We are having problems with the new engine design. It won't spin up beyond about 33krpm, and we need 36krpm. The issue is rubbing taking place at the sleeve bearing and gas separator. If we can't get it resolved immediately, we'll miss our opportunity to hot fire the engine over spring break. But since I won't be there anyway, this isn't a huge deal for me. Andy won the Lemmelson prize ($33k!!) and is now getting married, which will put him out of reach to the team until after the summer, and we need him to test because the test range is on his parents property. So if we miss the spring break firing test opportunity, we have to wait for September. It's a bummer, but in the meantime I'll have the payload test rocket to work on and there has been some discussion of making really small pressure-fed liquid fuel rockets just for fun.

Tuesday I went to Luka's place and we talked about my ideas for the rocketry flight computer. He helped me discover that I really don't need a ring buffer at all, and got me on my way toward testing, fabbing, and flying the actual product. Looks like it'll be too expensive to actually sell to anyone, but it'll sure be fun to build and use.

Wednesday was 6.270. We interviewed our new organizer candidates. We have some really good people joining up this year, it should be a great contest. Afterwards I went to Justin's compiler class again.

Today I'm going climbing with Mikkel and then we're going to paint rockets. I also started work today with Frostbyte on a souped-up propeller clock art hack thing. More on that later; it should rock.

Tomorrow I'm going to a party thrown by the Taiwanese Student Assication at Harvard. No idea what to expect there, except that I'm going to feel really tall. After that I'm going to stop by Tetazoo for some toga party action. Can't stay there too late, though, because...

Saturday I'm launching The Nerd Magnet! Possibly certifying for Level 1 HPR. Also, there will be a L-class hybrid motor launch. This should be great. When I get back from the launch, I'm going to a birthday party for a good friend.

Sunday, Luka is coming over to inspect the warehouse and take measurements for the shelving he has agreed to buy us. He's building some sort of enormous solar-powered wok for burningman and needs some workspace for it. In return, he's going to buy us really great industrial-grade shelving like they use at Home Depot. It'll be great for the warehouse to finally have stuff being built there, and to have shelving to put all our crap on.