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"Molten milk chocolate mixed with cream is like a liquid cuddle for your belly." -Steve *drooling at the thought*

Mink and Kris visited me over the weekend. They drove out from Boston sharing the joyous task of conducting Kris's boatSUV on the Route Ninety Sea. We had a most excellent time hanging out while Rob and Ryan worked on and drank their beer, cuddled, toured RIT and other such randomy things. I miss being in Boston and I miss them both; why must I be plagued with the torment of distance? So far I've had one (1) relationship (besides this summer) where distance was not a major impediment. Even then, transportation was a bit of a pain without a car. Some day, some glorious day...

On an unrelated note, I am now Vice President of RIT's SME club. Andrew has also been appointed the President. That means that the top two positions of the Society of Manufacturing Engineers are lead by ones other than Manufacturing Engineers. I'm not even technically an engineer either. I believe there's one ME student in the entire club, but I could be wrong.

Whatever the silly terminology makes itself out to being, I'm now co-leading what's solely become a robotics club (technically, SME does other things. I should probably find out what those are soon, I imagine). Together with MDRC, we will be trying to bring more robotics projects to RIT.

One of the most important aspects of robotics in a school environment is that it requires the help of many types of people to produce a final product. Hardware designers, hardware producers, software designers, software implementers, debuggers, web designers, graphic artists - a vast array of people can work together on one [hopefully] kick-ass tangible goal. This is why I like robotics: bringing together a heterogeneous group of people to make one nifty device. Well, that and the fact that I really enjoy automation in all its various forms. Especially 300lb forms that attempt to drive by themselves.

Now I must return to the homework I've been attempting to do all weekend (how can you sit down in front of a book writing in Japanese, «Mt. Everest is a bit larger than Mt. Fuji.» and other such variations for a few hours when there are two attractive females visiting you for a weekend? It's just unpossible). My partner in AI today greeted at lab me with a yellow Course Withdrawl form. He told me he was going to pull out and will be continuing to help with the project, but that's a good gauge of how frustrating the class is. Hopefully I can find time to sort out all the "fuzzy assignments" he keeps handing out; they're often about as vague as recycled technologies we explore.