Mas…

I laid a couple. Check the big ass MOFO right in front of the door. That mutha probably weighed in at 300 lbs.

I laid 4 more big ass pieces of stone, got a few others cut and ready to be placed…

I laid about 6 more big ass pieces of stone…

Well, I figured out what the hold up was on programming the microcontroller. It had to do with the version of the chip I was using. Got it all straightened out now (thanks to the new ICD2 connected to modular jack on left corner of board). So, I have been cranking away at the code. I got serial communications up and I have officially talked with the board over X10. I wish that I hadn’t gone this route now. X10 (not PLC) is very limited due to it’s stupid ass protocol. I can’t exactly send over whatever I want because the transmission ceases on three consecutive zero’s. So, the transmission of 0×02 or 0×20 as well as many others is not allowed. Now, I am having to write all sorts of little “work arounds” to get the data across. It’s just a pain in the ass. To make things worse, the F’ing PowerLinc repeats everything you send out so now I have to make exceptions for this. If I didn’t the board would cycle immediately on any function (ie: Pump turns on then immediately off). Once I fine tune the communications I will work on getting the VFD up and running. Besides being the coolest part of the project… it will serve well in debugging the code.

Got some more flagstone cut. I can’t lay it yet… my neighbor has borrowed my wheel barrow.