Greetings from Poughkeepsie NY. I’m down here for a couple of days of work meetings and a meet up with Diane and Max in NYC tomorrow night or Tuesday. Diane and I spent a good portion of the day working with Homer, Mike David and Chris on assembling the first wheel of the time cycle. After a couple of hours of grinding and banging we managed to get the whole thing to slip together. Homer has done an amazing job of designing this wheel.. it’s a thing of beauty. Around 3:30 we’d managed ot gt the struts on, the rims locked in and the spokes tightened to the point that the thing was pretty tight. David got the forklift and we all held our breath as he hoisted the thing up to vertical
Once it was up we tightened the spokes on the bottom sde of the wheel and voila.. it was tall and true !
Here’s a picture to give you a sense of the size.. (we chose dinae because that even makes it look taller 🙂
It was a good weekends work.. now on to wheel number 2, the clockwork, the drive and the lighting.. It’s goign to be a busy 3 weeks !
Once the wheel was standing it began to rain a bit.. so I decided it was time to start heading south. The drive down to NY flew by.. I had some great phone convrsations with old friends.. my brother, my friend kevin, cousin mark, then.. I decided to call my old high school friend Phillip. We last spoke in 1976 (I think).. but had recently reconnected by Facebook. I thin we spoke for about an hour.. It was just so great catching up on each others families both happy and tragic, our passions, our current life situations.. etc. We had a great time taking about all the geeky stuff we did as kids including blowing stuff up (over the towns fire station) , getting caught hacking phones, drinking hot sauce, camping in new mexico, making up making up new languages and swimming (unintentionally ) in sewage laden storm runoff. We made a date to talk at least once more in the next 33 years just to stay in touch.. no seriously.. I hpe to find phil in person next time I’m on the west coast..
Around 9 I made it to the homes of more old friends Bruce and Mary Beth.. We went out for a late dinner and talked about family, eating rats and work.. not too much about work… but engouhg. Bruce has always been oe of my best work mentors..
Yikes it’s late.. time for sleep.. More tomorrow. Nite folks. Nite Sam !
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