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greetings from Midtown Manhattan… Down here for a very interesting set of work meetings. After dinner and a late night meeting I took a quick cab ride over to see Max and friends… That’s one thing I really love about coming down here
Oh it’s late… Got to sleep. More tomorrow
Oh it’s late… Got to sleep. More tomorrow
Night All, night Sam
– Me
I ended up spending the whole day working in prep for going back to work tomorrow. I know it sounds ironic.. but overall, it’s been a good tradeoff.. I was able to really get offline this break and recharge. I can’t remember when I was able to free my head from work so much.. ..
thats worth a whole sunday.. don’t you think ?
nite all, nite sam
-me
Quiet day at home.. starting to ramp up for a running start at work. I realized as I started revving for work just how relaxed i’ve gotten over the break.. that’s a really nice thing ! I know I’m going to be even busier than last year .. which is hard to do.. I’m looking forward to it, though !
Our one real accomplishment today was to clean out the “old lab”.. once upon a time before we built the garage-yoga-studio-workshop/lab .. the boys and I used the large closet in the front of the house as our workshop.. I started getting uneasy about keeping some of the chemicals I own inside the house.. which was My big motivation for building a garage (in addition to having a place to park the cars and do the occasional downward dog 🙂
We now use the old lab mainly for storage.. and it gets to be like a coral reef.. there are layers and layers of stuff that gets stacked in there.. and only the outermost layers are reachable. We decided to attack at least that reachable layer as a good way to start the year
there were four big bins of computer cables , wall adapters , ac cords and audio cables. The contents of each looked like this. I’d love to understand the dynamics that take a bunch of nicely coiled cables and over 5 years or so turn them into a gordian knot.. seriously there must be some super cool mathmatics at work there !
I find I’m always rummaging through here looking for adapters.. you never know what you will need .. .. Ahh the rummaging must have something to do with the mess..
it took hours to untangle each of those messes, sort them (eg.. now all the hundreds (yes.. literally) of wall warts are sorted into bags marked <5v, 5v, 5v>x<12v,12v,>12v) .. what a great metaphor for getting your life together.
many hours later things started to look a little better
look.. you can actually see the floor !
i can now charge into 2016 … you can’t stop a man once his cables are untangled.. !!!
nite all, nite sam
-me
We had a very quiet start to 2016.. really didn’t do much. Took a walk out with the dogs.. but the snow was too crusty and slippery to make for good hiking.
Did spend some good time with Friend Scott doing some final tuning on the tesla coil Scott rebuilt for me to replace the old SSTC coil I built for travel. We got it to consistently hit about 30″ of spark which isn’t bad for something that weighs just 15 pounds. We’re still trying to debug a glitch in the midi interface circuitry which keeps us from bringing it to full power.. hope to nail that soon. Other than that.. this thing is working great. it’s the perfect addition to my shows.. as it can stand in for my old reliably spark gap coil that weighs over 100 pounds !
Later in the day we went and saw freind Bradley and Justins new beautiful home..
Aside from that.. our biggest accomplishment today ws to eat all the leftover from 2015…
starting the new year with a clean fridge is a good thing !
nite all, nite sam
-me
