Folks,
    I need to apologize in advance. It’s nearly 2AM and I need to go to sleep.  I’m also using  differnt editor.. so I have even less of  a spell checker.I really can’t see the spelling errors without it.  Hope this is legible..     I’ve been working most of the day on the charts for my talk next month. I wonder if My Obama is working as hard on his speach. Diane has been a wonderful help goign through and helping me refine the message. It’s a complicated, subtle  and maybe contraversial set of suggestions I’m makingin this talk . She’s really helping me to make sure the points come across.. She’s wonderful.

Not much to report on the rest of the day.. I did take a break midday to work with Homer and Mitch on two projects. The first is a variable delay timer for the propane flame throrower that Homer is teachign the Middllebury college kids how to build . It needs to have a way to adjust boththe flame time and the repitition rate of the 25 foot flame jets.. I ended up using a small microcontroller to build this little delay relay. It’s not pretty.. but it works well. Homer’s testing the flamethrower next weekend.. stay tuned for that…

The other thing we worked on was designs for the Burning man art car design.. As  you may recall, it’sgoign to be a 20 foot ferris wheel.. Homer’s built a great scale model.. We discussed the loading and unloading.. saftey (believe it or not) , and started estimates for weoght and cost.. It will be a big project. Does anyone have 30 thousand dollars lying aroudn that they’d like to toss into this project.. Not us !

Homer’s models are always great.. this thing is a work of art.. and works beutifuly…

OK.. Starting to nod off here.. so more tomorrow…   Big week this week…. Obama will be our pres.. That’s so amazing and cool

Nite all  Nite Sam
-me