Yesterday afternoon was so filled with interruptions that I only managed to complete one of the half-dozen tasks on my to-do list for that time... and that was the only one that wasn't billable time.
Today... well, I'm sort of catching up. Got several things checked off, and I'm making progress on Project Egbert as well as handling change requests on an earlier project.
And, demarcation not yet having been settled, I've been looking at aspects of Egbert that will probably be someone else's bailiwick once the lines are drawn. This leads to my looking up the I/O connectors used on Egbert's predecessor, which I guess must, in retrospect, be Offa.
A hundred eighty dollars per*? And there are two of them on the board, which makes the cost of my fancy high-tech chips look kind of inconsequential.
Well, I think we'll be using a different connector family for Egbert, but I don't know yet if it's more or less expensive. (The list of ordering options suggests that it's not much less expensive, if at all.)
And I think I'll be looking more at doing it right options, as opposed to doing it on a budget, at least so far as the right way isn't hugely more expensive.
Still to be done this evening: continuing support for the project that's in bring-up mode, and some further contemplation of Egbert. (Not real work; that requires a bigger block of time, and also clearing my workbench of the stuff I need to have there for the continuing-support task.) Then there's a lot of stuff that should be on my personal to-do list, only I don't seem to be keeping one, so that stuff all gets lost....
*Update: apparently the client's purchasing department gets a better deal than my casual web search turned up. They're only paying $76 each, in whatever quantities they buy.
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