My poor eyes

Because I stare at a computer the whole day. Either that, or extremely tiny things on a board. Although my body isn't physically exhausted, I'm usually pretty mentally fatigued by the time I get home in the evening. The other major contributor is the commute, but I will describe more about that later on. Speaking of my computer, I never actually showed you guys how my place looks like. Here's a partial view of the room:

Err, yeah, it's pretty damn messy, especially by my standards. It was like that when I first started, and it's still like that now. I'm pretty sure that all the other rooms in the place are like this as well, and no one really bothers to do anything about it. It's probably because it's not a private office, more like a common usage room. (I have a coworker on the other side of the room.) And here's how my workstation looks like:

The computer is nice, no complaints--Windows XP, fast connection (and who cares about any other specs, I'm only using this for work and not as a storage space for porn or whatever), and super-nice monitor. I don't mind so much the mess around me either, since it doesn't get in the way. The chair sucks though; it's old-ish, and the squeaking is Horrible. I hate it whenever I lean back, and I feel sorry for anyone else in the room as well. All the other chairs in the room are too short, too tall, lack arms, etc. I use the drawers as well, and they sometimes suck too and refuse to open or close.

Anyway, back to my eyes. On account of these things being so small, most engineers have a visor like this one. It's pretty neat--just pop it on, adjust to head size, and pull over eyes. Then everything becomes magnified without worry. No need to clumsily hold a stupid magnifying glass or to look for a microscope (my coworker, incidentally, does have one at his workstation). And finally, we have this:

A digital caliper to help me measure things down to about a tenth of a mil (a mil is a thousandth of an inch). You really didn't expect me to eye things or use a fucking ruler, right? But yes, this is pretty indispensable for getting things into the right place.

As for today, it was just a LOT of measuring and calculating. If you look back at the circular anode board on the bottom, you'll notice the copper skeleton. To find out the relative positions of the lines, I basically used the known radii of the circles and angles of the lines to find their coordinates. Way too much sine and cosine crunching. -_- Hopefully I can actually start placing parts and routing soon, and I'll probably finish up early next week if not tomorrow.