Today was quite a sweet day. A PhD student had returned form presenting a paper at the American Control Conference, held in New York. Name dropping aside, why I mentioned all that was because he brought a nice load of chocolates with him, with the added bonus that there was dark chocolate amongst the hoard. Yum! Later in the day I found the stash of chocolates another PhD student had brought on his recent trip to the UK. So it just got better :).

Meanwhile I was chatting with D. We spoke about how bugging it was when the latest fad happens to be one of our long-time personal taste or preference. So what we generally enjoyed doing, in a highly individual way, soon becomes a cliche. Sad.

In the middle of that conversation, I was trying to get my aerial robot built. There are many more names to call this little gizmo, but this one is the coolest :D. Anyway, we were building a test stand that would allow the thing to rotate along all axes, but not move, because if it didn't work things could get messy. It was awesome to see it all put together finally.

Went for a walk in Sankey Tank. Bumped into S and A, quite a surprise. Anyway it was fun chatting. Quite a peaceful place.

In the end I went home, strummed the guitar a bit. It's nice to play yourself some arbitrary tune. So after quite a good day, just slept dreamlessly. :)