Doors

Well there's an old saying about doors... you know when one closes another opens up.  Turns out there's some truth to this idea, especially when it comes to research.  The past couple days I've talked about the difficult in getting some of my hardware to work with an older operating system on one of our lab computers.  Yesterday I admitted that continuing my course of action was not a reasonable use of my time, however, I didn't want to just revert to a previous (sub-par) strategy.  A post-doc in our lab throughout a couple alternative ideas which I looked into today.  After a morning looking at my options, I am very please with a brand new approach which not only solves my problem it enriches my work.  Not only did a new door open, but it's a bigger, shinier, more versatile door!  I spent time today working on a proof of concept and having seen the viability in the plan I shelved that work for now to spend time on my second challenge from the week.  I am pleased to report I also have movement on this front, with my program now compiling and acquiring data as expected.  Now I need to verify the data collected is what you would expect and hopefully make a measurement for one of my articles I am hoping to finish soon.