When Jen told me we could take the family on a week-long trip to Paris, France and Barcelona, Spain with three full days in each city, during February vacation .. for less than the cost of a trip to Disney, I was incredulous. When we did it, I was amazed. When we got back, exhausted. And now wondering how we pull off something like this again!
Of course getting flights and hotels this cheap meant not direct and single family room for four, but we could work with that.
A mid-winter trip to Iceland sounded chilly, I was apprehensive until I saw the cheap flights and hot excursions Jen found. Luckily, the week we went, it was sub-zero temperatures at home and mid to low 30F in Iceland .. we actually found warmer weather than staying home.
And with Sky Lagoon a balmy 104F, we really had it made!
With a name like "South Shore", you would think it would be a little warmer. But no: air temperature of about 50F was nice if not for the stiff breeze over 10mph and a water temp of about 42F. Waves were nice - there were a few surfers, with full wetsuit regalia. I saw only one other brave soul splashing about.
What's two more? A half month of half marathons - 15 days in a row, total (with some overages) of 196.75 miles, in roughly 2 weeks.
So after Saturday, December 14 and Sunday, December 15, I'm done with half marathons ... for this year.
Early last month I was thinking over some of my running challenges and thought, "I have yet to run 13 half marathons in 13 consecutive days". Moreover, if I was to do that and start on the first of a month, I would finish on the 13th of that month and if that day was a Friday - Friday the Thirteenth - I could call it the "Lucky 13 Challenge". Then I thought, what's the next time we get a Friday the Thirteenth ... and then I realized, it was this December - 3 weeks away. So much for training ...
In my last Emulation 101 post, I talked about why we use emulation instead of expensive real-world systems testing or abstracted software-only simulation. This time, we're talking about the design of our emulation testbed and the software under test.
Our emulation testbed has three main components:
I talked about the emulation software and framework in the last post. The software or system under test is the software we're writing that needs to be tested - and emulation is the means we've chosen to do it. The "middleware" is the important part I'd like to discuss today.
Last night I took the family to see Iron Maiden - my favorite band of all time and quite possibly the best band in the world, ever.
I saw Iron Maiden in Providence, RI back in January, 1991 - my first concert. Fitting that this was my both of my kids' first concert. They grew up with me playing Maiden in the car, in the house - they knew some songs and even sang along with the chorus to Heaven Can Wait, Fear of the Dark, The Trooper and Wasted Years.
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