I am NOT SWISS and I DON'T SOUND SWISS either!

spent all morning and most of the afternoon still trying to find stuff about subthreshold and gate leakage currents in the ever shrinking transistors of today. i'm really bad at transstors, so i also had to read up on them. got my mum to send me my semiconductor device textbook (grandma's on holiday in switzerland, coming back tomorrow). that book is the one i never managed to read, no matter how hard i tried: it put me to sleep every single time. no idea why, i was interested in the subject, i desperately wanted to learn it. the one time i even tried to read it during the lecture (the lecture was rubbish and the lecture notes were worse than rubbish). i fell asleep during the lecture!!! this was in the days before i could sleep anywhere at any time, so it was quite alarming... wait, there was one time i didn't fall alseep over it: i couldn't get to sleep, so i thought i'd be clever and read that till it put me to sleep as usual. but it didn't... :-( how nasty is that?!
but now i'll have to have another go at reading it cause i need to understand it... ah well

around three i gave up and went to pester paul n for something to do (he'd said in the morning he'd sort something out). so he handed me back over to sg (he's actually a nce guy, have i ever mentioned that, just usually a nightmare). but this time since i have absolutely no clue whatsoever i'm quite happy with all his explanations ;-)

so i was supposed to resynthesise the whole chip so i can do the power analysis and the gate level simulation on the correct version. synthesising the whole thng takes 10 hours, so i was going to run it overnight. i started it at four o'clock and at half past the system (or at least a very important part of it) crashed... arghh!!! i've left a command on sleep for five hours, but unless they manage to fix the problem by ten or so, i'm going to be hanging around doing nothing much again tomorrow... :-(

ah well.

i'm making chicken fajitas tonight. yummy yummy. just have to go out and get the ingredients...

tom just asked why it says 'i am not swiss and i don't sound swiss'. my answer: 'cause it's the truth', a bit worried what he'd say about that. to my great relief it was 'you're not swiss... *looks confused*... you're welsh!' hurray!!! tom's not so bad after all ;-)

posted by Vickster at 19:22.