A good day

Productivity is a such a great feeling.  I accomplished things all day long and as hot as it was, I felt like skipping home!

This morning I was able to ride the unicycle about 15 feet before losing my balance.  I didn't try again because I wanted to be sure to end on a high note!  I'm hopeful that tomorrow I'll  ride even further.

I was close to tears in Reliability class because I came to class confident in my homework answers, but his answers were much different from mine.  After class I found a few small opportunities for repair (It is important to only miss the things I don't know) and realized that his Excel columns were in a different order from mine.  My homework is ready to be turned in and it isn't even due until Thursday!

At our 1:00 meeting one of my project partners was able to install the imaging library on her laptop so we can now upload images to our auction program.  I'm pretty sure that the problem I had Saturday morning was permission related.  I've still not installed it on my Mac and I think I'm going to leave well enough alone.  I can build the project and test everything except uploading images without the library then transfer the program to her laptop for the image upload test.

After Cloud class I worked on my Double Row Layout Problem and was able to duplicate the objective function results from the AMPL program.  I've been working on re-writing the objective function code in my program all summer so this is huge!  Now I get to move to the Ant Colony part of the program.  I'm experimenting with the variations in the algorithm and the values of all of the parameters to figure out which combinations will lead to optimality in the least amount of run time.

I look forward to another good day tomorrow.