Megan and I are having troubles with our model this month. We are both working to get it done, at the most, by the end of December. We will most likely not have a full metal working product by the end of the semester. We are having to overcome the trouble with money, time, and blueprints. Our time feels too limited to be able to go out and buy the product during the period and neither one of us exactly has the money to do that, but this is an obstacle we can overcome through planning and begging for money from the parents. Our blueprints are somewhat up in the air in the sense that we have the major idea but not the details all pinpointed and organized.

What is my salary?
Gross: $215,000
Net: $172,000
       20% income tax from federal (Jersey) none figured from state.
       No social security found that is provided by the company.
       Retirement would come out of the pocket after being paid.
Sources websites:
http://www.mondaq.com/x/264922/tax+authorities/UK+Crown+dependencies
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jersey
My phone for the salary :)

Blog summaries
Accomplishing the September goal was not a horribly difficult job, but was made worse through volleyball and missing a lot of precious time.
A) The September goal was accomplished because of future ideas Megan was hoping to accomplish that we grabbed onto and stuck with.
B) Decisions, decisions, decisions
      1) We were FINALLY able to make a decision because of a little outside help and the narrowing of topics that were more interesting or not so much so.
      2) Our problem being resolved helped us to move on to the next stage of drawing and designing.
      3) This issue has not come up again so far. A few times we doubted the idea, but we have decided to stick it through and make it the best one yet.
C) The end of November goal is a little bit tricky to accomplish. We hope to have the assembly/model complete in a 3-d visual. We have talked to Mrs. Laplante about the idea behind what this model needs to accomplish and she have us very insightful ideas. Now we need to put these ideas into shapes and contraptions that work together to do what we want it to do. Basically we will use tubing, a syringe and the brace to come up with a design to serve our purpose. (I don't want to give too much of this awesome contraption away just yet.)
D) Our end of December goal is have worked out the glitches and hiccups to make this invention as efficient and light and consistent as possible.