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Jun. 22nd, 2007 11:45 amI feel like I have so much to post about that it's inhibiting me from posting. This will never do.
1) I intend to post about the Ireland trip. Really. But not today.
2) I am experimenting with constructing musical instrument cases, fiberglass around a foam core. I feel like this should take less time than it has been taking, but that's my "if nothing goes wrong" projections talking. Nevertheless I hope to finish the prototype by the end of this weekend. The prototype is already strong enough to stand on (for me to stand on; I make no guarantees about other people), which is the lower edge of the strength I was aiming for. My big worry about musical instruments in soft cases tends to be "what if someone steps on it by accident?"
I intend to post more about this. There may actually be enough interest (the filking community having its share of strange musical instruments for which it is hard to find a good case) that I may even work up a how-to web page. But not today.
3) I have been finding myself short of time as a result of 2, and have switched from riding the exercise bike at the gym to riding my own bike from home. I have been building up gradually, first the 1 1/2 mile hill up to the hospital, then over the hill and past the hospital to the school, then past the school and into the western edge of Jefferson City--today I rode all the way into Jefferson City, to the Wal-Mart, and did my grocery shopping. Road work made the way in more exciting. On the way back I found a way around the stretch with heavy traffic and no shoulder, avoiding the road work in the process.
On the down side, I discovered that my folding panniers hadn't been unfolded in so long that they were stuck folded. On the up side, my bike bag was big enough to take all the groceries, and I fixed the panniers at home with a couple of shots of WD-40 and a few tweaks from the pliers. It's amazing how insoluble problems become trivial with the right tools.
1) I intend to post about the Ireland trip. Really. But not today.
2) I am experimenting with constructing musical instrument cases, fiberglass around a foam core. I feel like this should take less time than it has been taking, but that's my "if nothing goes wrong" projections talking. Nevertheless I hope to finish the prototype by the end of this weekend. The prototype is already strong enough to stand on (for me to stand on; I make no guarantees about other people), which is the lower edge of the strength I was aiming for. My big worry about musical instruments in soft cases tends to be "what if someone steps on it by accident?"
I intend to post more about this. There may actually be enough interest (the filking community having its share of strange musical instruments for which it is hard to find a good case) that I may even work up a how-to web page. But not today.
3) I have been finding myself short of time as a result of 2, and have switched from riding the exercise bike at the gym to riding my own bike from home. I have been building up gradually, first the 1 1/2 mile hill up to the hospital, then over the hill and past the hospital to the school, then past the school and into the western edge of Jefferson City--today I rode all the way into Jefferson City, to the Wal-Mart, and did my grocery shopping. Road work made the way in more exciting. On the way back I found a way around the stretch with heavy traffic and no shoulder, avoiding the road work in the process.
On the down side, I discovered that my folding panniers hadn't been unfolded in so long that they were stuck folded. On the up side, my bike bag was big enough to take all the groceries, and I fixed the panniers at home with a couple of shots of WD-40 and a few tweaks from the pliers. It's amazing how insoluble problems become trivial with the right tools.
