i will sleep well tonight

today was a glorious, glorious day.

1. the propulsion final was easy.
2. i had a nice lunch with doritos on my sandwich, which is surprisingly good.
3. i went to the lab and within an hour, we had phatman working. for real. as in, he was done. !! HOORAY!! the key was stators. freaking stators. there was nothing wrong with our control design, in fact, the control design was perfect. the problem was that the fans swirled the air. stators straightened it out and bam, the relationship of our actuator was linear. phatman works. he dances. AW YEAH. the presentations are tomorrow, so i'll take pictures.
4. i had a good conversation this morning.
5. i heard an astronaut speak and was inspired.
6. i ended the day with a pitcher of beer at the treehouse with aaron, mike, and steve, three of my favorite boys.

all in all, the quarter is finishing swimmingly.