PCBs, Perfect Timing, and the Usual Tangents
If there’s one thing that never fails to impress me, it’s Microsoft Excel. You can say what you want, but spreadsheets are objectively one of the best things ever created. Organizing data, automating calculations, bending numbers to my will—it’s beautiful. Some people see a blank sheet and freeze. I see endless potential. With Excel, I can have it all—formulas, macros, perfectly aligned cells.
But moving on from my love of spreadsheets, nothing much has changed since yesterday. School is still school, and my radio has still been sitting in silence. But on the technical side of things, I’ve been back at it, working on designing PCBs for a radio project that I’m actually planning to get made properly. I’ve done a lot of DIY boards in the past, but there’s something satisfying about sending off a design and getting back a set of professionally manufactured boards that you can assemble properly without worrying about dodgy traces or etching mistakes.
I’ve written before about timing—how important it is in radio, in life, in everything. And while I wasn’t talking about actual transmissions back then, the principle still holds. Some people rush into things, force them before they’re ready, and wonder why nothing works out. But me? I’m letting things happen as they should. Taking life with the perfect timing, just like a well-synced oscillator, and it’s going a lot better than the trial-and-error approach I see from others who dive into things without second thought.
And of course, she’s part of that. Somehow, without even trying, she makes everything feel like it’s happening exactly when it should. It’s not about pushing or waiting, it just is. And honestly? That’s what makes it so good. If there’s a way to put it into words, it would probably be what was said in that song by Modern Talking: “You’re my heart, you’re my soul. I’ll keep it shining everywhere I go.” Not because it needs to be said, but because it’s already true.
That’s all from me for now, I definitely think after this that more than two posts a week is pushing it in terms of how much I can write that’s new and interesting.
But on that note, 73 for now
Daniel