On the road again !. .. This time DIane and I left early this morning for Texas.. Billy and Shaun met us at the Airport and drove us to College Station for a meeting Billy and I having tonight. It was so much fun driving around texas with those two. We just happened to hit texas in the couple of days when it’s really pretty. The wildflowers were out.. especially the bluebonnets (I put on Nanci Griffiths “Gulf coast Highway” and teared up a little)
We got to College station about 4.. cleaned up.. and billy and I headed out. DIane and Shaun had dinner on the campus which is huge
Billy and I had dinner with some folks from Texas A&M about a project they working on. Cant go in to the details here.. but what they’re trying to do is very interesting and worthwhile.
Pretty quiet day.. most notable thing was our Fluffy meetup at Hula this evening. We are looking for ways to simplify the setup and takedown of Fluffy’s 50 some odd plywood clouds. This week focus was on “attachment”..
not the Buddhist kind of attachment, which is the root of all suffering ( I note.. the 4 types of attachment called out by buddhists are:
attachment to this life;
attachment to the three realms of saṃsāra;
attachment to your own self-interest;
attachment to a true reality or existence in things and their characteristics
This is attachment of the more literal kind.. as how we’re gonna attach the #$@3%& clouds to the side of the bus. Lefty (Stein) took us through his thoughts on how we can simplify the support structure for the clouds using precut plywood stands. They should be significantly easier than the 30 or so “christmas tree” supports we currently use. We have until April 15 to work out the detail.. it’s looking good.
The other thing we discussed was the Gantt chart diane and I made for all the stuff we’re trying to do for the lights..
Lots of stuff in there.. but doable if we keep making steady progress …
Very quiet day. Highpoint was a good day at work and an excellent prep call for our upcoming XenboX project in California.. (More on that after it happens). .
My favorite thing about Tuesdays is Diane’s pop-up Yoga classes . We only have them on free Tuesdays and tonight was a free Tuesday.. A bunch of nice people over for Yoga and soup…
Felt like a slow start today..even so got in a nice run with diane and enjoyed the signs of winter changing to spring. Check out this ice in a puddle. Is that water ?!
Stopped by Chris’ on the way to work to check out his new kitchen.. he’s built it all by himself. It’s so amazing what that guy can do !
