Monthly Archives: July 2012

Wednesday night – the forth

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Good forth of july today… very hot and sticky which had me moving very slowly…. we showed up at the Bressors around 10:30 The normal crowd was there.. it was great catching up with them .

 

The parade was cute as usual.. the normal compliment of bagpipes, politicians, firetrucks and floats.. fewr this year I think. Several of us vowed to try to spice it up next year…

 

It wouldnt be the forth without kids falling off the brisge.. I didn’t go in this year.. but I have the last couple.. Here’s ellis doing a back dive.

 

I just missed catching gabe do a double back flip.. i think I have it on my phone.. if so, i’ll post it.

after the parade, we milled around the park shmoozing with folks.. then headed home for a long slow day of visitors.. we had a ton of folks drop by..Ā  Diane made patriotic food for them šŸ™‚

Matt entertained people by doing his crazy spray paint pics.. he’s amazing .

 

I spent a good part of the afternoon working on my LED hoop.. only to find the batteries drained before getting to fireworks.. bummer.. Id spent 2 days trying to prep for that.. but.. what can you do..

 

one interesting thing about fireworks.. as we drove up to the bressors around 9 we noticed it was eerily dark all through town.. we had a huge flash storm around 7.. it took down several trees, and with them some power lines… We were watching this guy working to restore a tripped breaker.. as the fireworks sparkled behind him.. very cool !

 

we ended up walking out on the bridge to watch the fireworks. They were really good this time.. !

 

 

 

 

 

So that was our day… … oh wait, one other thing. Yesterday I helped freind Herb retrofit our pumpkin robot to run on bottled co2 instead of a compressor.. Today herb and others fro the haunted forest took the monster on a flatbed ttrailor in the williston parade.. I found these two pictures from James.. does anyone else have pics of the device in the parade ? I’d really like to see !

 

ok.. I’m really beat.. time for bed now.. more tomorrow..

nite all, nite sam.. I know you loved the 4th !

-me

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tuesday night – geek day

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Busy and geeky day.. I began by finishing up the LED hoop i started last night.. I still need to tweek the software, but I think it’s going to be sweet !

 

 

Then I met Herb at the haunted forest to get Project XrPumpkin robot ready for the Williston parade tomorrow. I’m not really sure what they are trying to do. I believe they are trying to get the giant pumpkin robot to look like Trey A. from Phish.. not sure how that’s going to happen. I spent the afternoon getting the thing to run on bottled CO2 instead of a compresser.. not as easy as it sounded..

 

 

Then I headed to the north end to visit freind scott. His family is out of the country for a couple of weeks, so he’s transformed his kitchen into a chemistry lab.. Here he is with some re-preprocessed KNO3 .. looks suspicious.. but it’s relativity safe..

 

.. well.. at least it wsa safer than the rest of the stuff he has in there .. šŸ™‚

 

 

 

 

We fired up Scotts new marx generator as well.. I’ll try to get a movie in here of it firing.. good spark off of 12 folts in.. nice !

 

Then around 7 we showed up at Echo for the Fireworks.. it was nice watching from there.. first up was the same great stunt flyer from last year.. amazing !

 

 

 

 

I got out the hoop to test on people.. Jackie was there with the other light up hoop I’d made here.. Here’s my freind Julie with the new hoop

and the old one

and here’s Jackie giveing it a spin.. I need to make it more stroby

finally it was time for fireworks. they were really amazing.. a long show tonight..

ok.. it’s very late now.. gotta sleep.. more on the 4th
nite all, nite sam
-me

Monday eveining – off time

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Today was to have been the first day of my vacation, but it didn’t end up working like that.. due to one thing or another, I ended up having several meetings today.Ā  and several things I needed to get turned in. . none of them alone were so bad.. but the overall effect was like a normal workday.. ..What’s even strangerĀ  is that I ended up spending some of the remaining time today trying to arrangeĀ  my calendar for the upcoming two months. nothing gets my stomach in a not like a calendar..

so.. I just spent one of my very few days off not being off in any real sense.. and i’m trying to figure outĀ  how I let it happen. .. i’m committing to myself to ease up over the rest of the break..Ā  I have so much relaxing I need to cram into such a small number of squares on the calendar.. hmmmmm

the good thing is, i haveĀ  abunch of fun stuff noodling around in my head for the next couple of days..and I’m trying to managa my expectaitons in such a way that if I even get one of them done.. it will be a success.. I’ll keep you all posted..

 

but for now, I need to go do some homework before I can play.. more later..

 

nite all, nite sam

-me

Sunday night – deflowered

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Slow and beautiful day.. diane and I took a very fast walk up one side of Robins mountain.. until the bugs got so bad near the top that we decided to turn back.. spent the rest of the day working ’round the house. Like most vacations, I began by cleaning my shop.. nothing like getting ready to work..

 

ok.. so not spotless.. but much better.. found lots of unidentified pyrotechnics stuff while I was cleaning.. which I burned off tonight.. always a surprise what I’ll find when I clean..

 

worked on a couple of projects today.. We rebuilt Jackie’s light up hoola hoop for an upcoming festival.. and I started on a new one for here.. this one will be microcontroller controlled.. should be pretty cool.

while I worked, diane had the unfortunate task of having to pull up all of her impatiens. .. They had come from the nursury with a bad fungal infection that killed thme all off.. by color.. it was very strange.. unfortunetly, there’s no time to replant them for the season.. but the nursery has been very good about it, they’ve offered diane replacement plants ofĀ  a different variety.. I believe we can’t replant impatiens there for 3 years because of the infestations…Ā Ā  It’s too bad.. lots of work went into planting them.. then more work to pull them up. then even more work to plant whatever we replace them with..Ā Ā  looks pretty bare out there now..

it was a beautiful eveningĀ  out there..

ok.. time for bed.. more tomorrow..

 

nite all, nite sam

-me
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