heyyy friends! it's been a minute! 
I don't have tech updates since the last post, although my oscilloscope did come in! I poked around on my board and got some really good insight that will fuel my debugging the next time I sit down for some real work. My goals for my next work session are the same as detailed in the previous post.
In the, what, 13 days since the last post, I have:
- interviewed for and accepted an offer for a job that is much better than my current one
- agreed to move a thousand miles away for it with three weeks notice
- changed my HRT routine
- my brake light came on, I decided to DIY it, and I found other broken parts inside to fix as well, in the car that I'm driving a thousand miles in two weeks
- stalled on my taxes and had to cram them all in during this
so I'm, yeah! feeling good! 
I'm expecting to be situated first week of May and probably will have enough work done to get post #6 up second week of May. I'm not worried about dropping this project, this is not the kind of project I intend to throw in the work in progress bin - I was a month deep when I started posting and I have a month of posts on this project, the momentum is there and I will finish this one. But expect some silence from me while I 
I love you all. Good things coming. I'm stressed but it's all positive changes and once I have stability I'll be better than I was before. 