img_8272.movGet into the end of a very nice four-day weekend . It was so great not thinking about work.

Spent most of the day working with my friends on the fire and water festival. We’re building a burning sculpture… Nowhere near as nice as our friend Chris could do it… But it’s fun to try to build something. This will be a 10 foot tall figure of king Louis sitting on his ‘throne’ Who’s head flies off at just the right moment.

We were trying to find a way to launch Louise 3 1/2 pound head… We tried springs, we tried bungees… Which sort of worked but was kind of unimpressive I finally decided to resort to some “G” rocket engines… These are much bigger than the kind you let your kids play with

I wasn’t even sure that these very powerful engines could lift a total weight of about 4 pounds… (That’s a lot for a small rocket)… But it ended up going 100 feet in the air and almost smashed newts car. It missed by 3 feet

It’s really fun figuring out these mechanisms etc. with my friends

Oh well… Back to work tomorrow.

nite all, nite sam

-me