… and that’s the way life goes…

So my last post was very short on hope and long on frustration.  That was just the middle of last week.   And now, my adviser (with me close by, but not really doing much other than catching typos) has my research converted from OPL to CPLEX, and running.  Granted there is still more to be done with the code, but it works.

I’ve also kicked my own ass into gear, with Sandy’s help and some good natured ribbing from my adviser.  I have a couple of pages of my thesis written.  Granted, the damn thing is so “rough draft” right now that I won’t let anybody look at it, but it is a start.  Rome wasn’t built in a day and my thesis won’t be either!

Thanks to everyone for the support, whether it be tough love or careful prodding.  I do appreciate it and I’ll probably need more of it in the future.  At least for now I feel like this thesis thing is getting somewhere.