Vacation Plan of Action

Thanks to some clever scheduling, I have a 4 day weekend thanks to the holiday. So I emailed Diefenbach about talking about my idea. So For now I'm going to set aside research, as much as it probably pains multiple people to hear that.

The good news of this short break is that I may have an opportunity to work on skills that could be useful towards this project as an actual Master's thesis. I'll leave you in suspense now.

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