I can't even describe how badly I don't want to get back on a plane this Tuesday. >.< In the last 9 months, my travel schedule has looked like this, and I don't even know what day it is anymore, let alone what timezone. >.<

9/16-10/5 Dublin for work.
10/22-11/9 Cincinnati for work.
2/18 - 3/1 Cincinnati for work.
3/16-3/22 Tucson to see Dakota.
3/23-4/5 Dublin for work.
4/22-5/10 Cincinnati for work.
5/18-5/24 Tucson to see Dakota.
7/??-7/?? Dublin for work.

@zetasyanthis Dublin as in Ireland‽

@Felthry Yes!

@zetasyanthis Wow, they send you all over the place don't they

@Felthry It hasn't been like this historically. This is an anomaly, but one fucking hell of an anomaly.

@Felthry This is for a major project, hence all the flying about. I'm responsible for the network infrastructure (and some of the software too) for a test system that's running factories in those two locations (in addition to several others).

@zetasyanthis that sounds hard and aaaa.

honestly though just mention doing anything networky or softwarey and it sounds hard to me

@Felthry Well, if it's more in your comfort zone, I dug through our e-waste bin grabbing server motherboards and managed to snag a few reels of mosfets, caps, and inductors. XD

@Felthry (I'm an Electrical and Computer Engineering who does a bit of everything.)

@zetasyanthis we're officially ECE but functionally EE because C is hard

@Felthry That's fair. The E is actually the hard part for me. Mostly CE. :P

And the FETs are little SOT23 ones. Some of inductors are pretty hefty though. 1uH, 55A rated.

@zetasyanthis I'm sure it's not 1μH at 55A though, you need some really expensive fancy stuff if you want constant inductance over wide bias ranges.

@Felthry

@zetasyanthis oh! I thought you meant you desoldered stuff, not that you found cut tape rolls