I just burned up not one, but two, single-board computers by plugging them into the 48v power supply instead of the 12v power supply. The wisp of smoke and smell of burning plastic wasn’t a big enough clue from the first one that I’d effed up, so I did it to the second one, too. Those were my last two, and we’re officially “4-6 weeks” from delivery of new ones. The GBP thinks he can probably save them by replacing a resistor or a capacitor or some other funky little squiggly-looking thingy. Christ, I hope so…I’ve got not just alpha testing to finish, not just other producty stuff on the drawing board, not just super-interested beta testers, but real live cash-in-hand customers I’m going to have to placate somehow. I hate electricity.

I’m now going to get drunk, and then shoot somebody/something/myself. Maybe I’ll just go eat a chicken fried steak or something equally heinous, but then I’d have to shower since it’s about 100% humidity today, and I’ve been working in the garage lab. Crap. Now I’ll have to work on the dumb websites and make brochures and other marketing stuff that I’m completely horrible at. I don’t market, I sell. I wish I could market…those guys seem pretty cool.