Today was a fairly relaxed day. Most of the serious stuff had been completed and I tidied up the new function by allow different calculations to be turned on and off. There were a couple of bugs that came to light with other options and some minor improvements added. I also helped tracked down some user and data errors.
Tony was back in the office but so busy we hardly had time for more than a few words in passing. We will play golf together tomorrow so at least we will have a chance to catch up then. Ebi and Craig are off doing other things, so I won't get to play with them this last time but Tony's wife Lisa and Andy from the office will make up the 4 some instead.
I went back to the Thai restaurant for lunch. I checked out a Greek one nearby but thought it would be better to get there for dinner which I did.
Various people came to say goodbye as they headed home from work today. It is a long weekend here so nobody was staying very late. I left about 5 and was for once not one of the last to go. A couple of times I've worried that everyone had already left, since I do not have a key.
It has been an interesting 4 weeks here. As I wander around the office I see plot screens from the application that I have been working on for 15 years on most of the engineers screens, coming out of the printer as the bulk of 100 page reports and on posters and power point presentations. Everybody seems to be excited about this new feature which they expect will lead to more work for the engineers. It has been dubbed SPEEDE (pronounced speedy of course) and stands for SPecific Energy Engineering Design and (something starting with E). They used the principals and possibly some of the calculations on the current well and saved the client 3/4 million dollars, so the clients are happy as well.
I have had a discussion with Richard who suspects there may not be much more help from the Osprey group but I expect that, since the VB interface works we can set that up as the live interface and use it to populate a buffer that TAD can read. Not quite as transparent to the user but should do the job. The alternative suggestion from the Internet seem to require an upgrade to the development language and even then no guarantee it will work.
I've put a last load of washing on and will try and get some of the packing done. With a noon tee off time tomorrow, I should be back at the apartment to finish off with time to spare.
There will be more pix of golf course tomorrow but not sure when I'll be putting them up. Hopefully I'll have some time in the Lounge in San Francisco tomorrow night.
A final set of miscellaneous Pictures from the last 4 weeks.
Another view of the water way and boat shed near the Pavilion. A bronze staue of the founder of the Woodlands. He was actually at the concert and was celbrating his brithday so the conductor said a few words and most people stood up and clapped.
A typical over large truck on the freeway. Another shot from the floods from the first week.
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