finally, some sense of accomplishment

after a rough start to the week, i feel REALLY good about how things turned out. i had many things to get done this week in preparation for a week off and an end-of-june deadline, but i was able to manage my time and not let any one project fall by the wayside. today was kind of like the icing on the cake because i forced myself to sit down and learn some things that i normally would have gone to ask for help on. between getting the benchmark environment setup calibrating my monitoring hardware, and writing some small programs to collect my power consumption data, i learned a lot. i feel good about where i am at the moment and hope things continue to progress this well on monday and tuesday. i still feel like there is still a lot going on at the moment, but today definitely helped to ease these feelings a bit.