Full throttle

"Grown up, and that is a terribly hard thing to do. It is much easier to skip it and go from one childhood to another."

F. Scott Fitzgerald

What a week! Good news on so many fronts it's difficult to know where to start. Kym will be working once again in Hobart, for the Feds - nice one Kym. Anthony is to start 2018 half teaching students and half teaching teachers at a new school - that should be interesting.

Good health news after a week of nail biting (apparently being sent out into the sun for regular crisping as a child is not a good thing), and of course all around nature is providing.

Tiny strawbs peeking out now means yums just around the corner!

Today we sprayed blackberries and other invasive weeds - this after whacking them for the last few weekends with the whipper snipper. The "organic" food zealots are probably spluttering up their triple distilled apple cider vinegar even as we go to print - but as a couple of organic chemists we can honestly testify that both acetic acid (in vinegar) and glyphosate (in Roundup) are all organic chemicals - you know, like DNA and Proteins that humans are made of (as well as sugar and spice) - well, you can look it up if you're really interested!

40kg of stupidity and cuteness

Then we shifted, fed and watered the sheep. Re-programmed the irrigation, snippered the garden weeds and finally took the pups down to the beach for a swim. So nice sitting on the balcony having a beer after all of that!

It wouldn't be a proper blog without some news from the world of electronics! We managed to make a 3.3V low quiescent current, small dropout voltage regulator by combining a couple of online suggestions.  Works a treat! Nice one interwebs...

Ready for action - just add voltage...

Y'all have a great week.