I finally wrapped up the last of my deliverables for fiscal year 2007 this past week, which is a huge relief. There were just a couple things left to do but I had basically run out of time and it has been a stressful couple of weeks. Anyway that's all over, the papers are submitted, the hardware works, etc. Now I can look forward and focus on the proposals that got funding for FY08, which includes some pretty great stuff. For one thing, the lab is funding me to go geek it up at Toorcon 9, immediately followed by a week and a half at the IEEE conference in Honolulu. Aw yeah.

But in the immediate future, I'm off to dusty Farmington, NM, where I'm competing in my third ever handball tournament. At the first tournament I went to (ABQ, last fall), I was pretty new at the game and played very poorly as a result. The second tournament (Durango, this summer) I had just returned from climbing Rainier and found my body to be physically useless, so I lost every game I played there. This time, I'm feeling good and I have no excuses not to kick butt. Except, perhaps, the fact that I'm still not really all that good. So if I get an unlucky draw I could still come up empty... but I'm hoping to at least win a game or two. This whole single-elimination business is sorta rough on new people.