Week in review: 17-23 May

This week my preparation for next month's trip has gone quite well.  I have a number of work streams underway and each one is tracking well; prints are in to the machine shop, I have a order in for electronics components and a PCB design to verify once I have the parts in my hand and finally I've started to tackle my mountain of programming chores.  Compared to this point prior to my past trip overseas I have a firmer grasp on the prerequisite workload.