Finally, my Astrofluids presentation will be done today, two weeks late. I'm happy to get it out of the way, it was somewhat time consuming to review for it every week, but in two hours, it'll be done. 

That aside, the DQM reports are becoming faster to do, as expected, so now it only eats up about 3 hours of time. I expect that I can get this down to two. 

Tonight, I have the night off and I think I'm going to run to Microbytes for a male-to-female RS-232 adapter for my FPGA project; Maybe tomorrow I can throw together some working code, which will be exciting. 

That aside, I've discovered that assuming all my neighbor's deck lights are off, I can observe an interesting part of the sky (Mars and Orion) from my back porch, assuming that I can align the telescope correctly. This is tricky because there's a tree in the way of Polaris, so I'm going to have to hope that I can orient the base North by eye (using the house as a reference).