Yesterday was a long day with some accomplishments. First, and maybe most important, Kiwi did not die while we were gone. Lorena’s cousin Beto was there to look in on here every now and then, but for the most part, she was on her own. She was and continues to be annoyingly happy to see us.

Toward the end of the day, I had the chance to work on the EKG project. I did not finish as much as I wanted because there were interruptions. I had the signals coming into my program from the EKG by the time I left town for vacation so now I am working on the strip chart that appears on the GUI as it is recorded. I hope to get the charting part complete by the end of the weekend so I can move on to record the data into a database. We will probably need some help from Christian to get the math right on parts of the signal processing of the two different heart rates we want to measure (a pregnant mother and her baby). I hope I have time, but I also am excited that I might get to work with him on something that is so closely associated with the work he does for his school.

Sometime this week, I have to get my Texas drivers license. I am at that awkward stage of life where I am more worried about the eye test part of the exam than the written or driving part. In fact, I do not think there will be a written or driving part. Lorena did not have to take those.

Lorena has all her transcripts from her all the community colleges she has attended so far (Portland, Linn Benton, Johnston, Wake Technical and Clackamas) turned into our new local community colldege in Texas. She has to take an orientation test this evening–we are not sure what that is about.

Beside all that, I am wanting to get back to work on the GaugeCam/Beaglebone Black project because people want to buy more cameras and our cell connectivity system is getting discontinued. I have it started and it has been running at the house for over a month now. My problem is that I just have too many other things going right now to get it done in a timely manner. Maybe I can get someone to volunteer on the project to help us. It is a great little project.