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mk  ·  1639 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: October 2, 2019

I'm finishing up the painting for my mom.

It's not my cup of tea, but she's excited about it. I'm looking forward to painting something from my head next. If this weren't for my mom, I'd get a bit crazy with lighting and try to give this some atmosphere, but I don't think she'd like it as much. I learned two lessons from this one: 1) the quality of your white paint matters a lot, and 2) don't use ceiling paint instead of primer as a base.

We now have 5 chickens. These are the latest additions.

I made that frame to hold a grapevine. Now it's a perch. Chickens are so endearingly stupid. When they aren't resting, they seem to oscillate between curiosity and freaking out. Misty (the white one) is kind of like a dog. She likes people and likes to be held. Coco (the brown one) is a freak. Joy is just along for the ride. Our two big chickens are starting to tolerate them, but they aren't allowed to sleep on the high perch in the coop yet.

When I was in Norway, mike gave me this puzzle:

I've been solving it every day. It's pretty awesome.

My daughter and I are headed to Maine this weekend for a daddy/daughter trip. It's our first, and it was her suggestion. We are staying at a rustic cabin on the water. I'm really looking forward to it.

I just finished Visions of a Flying Machine by Peter Jakab. katakowsj bought it for me. It's a solid book that deconstructs the Wright's engineering process. It's totally an engineer's book, and the Wrights were totally engineers. They built the first self-powered airplane because they methodically isolated and addressed every issue that had to be overcome to make it happen. It's as simple as that. Everyone before them was building something with wings and hoping that it worked out. Next is David Palmer's Emergence, on wasoxygen's recommendation.

I've been making some tweaks around Hubski. Let me know if you find a bug.

Things are going well enough elsewhere. I haven't had to travel as much for Forever Labs in the last few months, and business is good. I appreciate the return to a slightly less frenetic pace of life. Not all of me could keep up. It's interesting watching Trump fall apart, and I hope our country comes out of this without irreparable damage. I expect that we are falling into a global recession; hopefully we keep our heads.