I’ve been down with the ‘flu lately, which should account for the dire lack of recent posts. Strange as it sounds, I’ve been feeling bored and depressed. More depressed than bored, I should think. It almost bordered on existential despair. Oh, it wasn’t because of the illness. Certainly not. I was almost happy to get sick. I rarely get sick enough to justify staying at home and goofing off (touch wood), but this time, with all these dengue cases and scares going around, I managed. I’m not really sure why, but I guess this depression does tend to strike whenever I stay at home for long periods of time. And no, nothing’s wrong with my home environment, and I wasn’t idling, either. I have rediscovered my love for lego civil and automotive engineering, and with my newly acquired neophyte understanding of electronics, have begun constructing cool stuff. Well, sort of cool stuff. I’ve almost completed building a radio-controlled dragster, and I’ve figured out how to transmit the control signals in pulse modulated code. It probably works in reverse for the receiver, but I haven’t worked that out yet. The steering was a bitch, and the thing I built was a little too delicate and yet cumbersome for my otherwise aesthetically pleasing speed-mobile. So I scrapped that, since I figured dragsters don’t really need to steer that much. Start with the basics, I told myself. I’m feeling so inspired nowadays, I might in fact go out (or rather, stay indoors) and order the Lego Mindstorms Robotic Invention System from Amazon. It’s amazing what a little fever can do to revitalize a sluggish brain. I should build a lego sauna next. But yeah, the depression. I still can’t figure it out. Hang around home doing nothing meaningful for a few days, and you end up feeling suicidal. For the silliest things.
