Summer continues. The weather’s been either really hot or really rainy, or sometimes both. Been busy with things.
Last week I went into the the office pretty much every day for work, because it was the summer onsite for our research fellows. This turned out to be alot of fun, because the fellows are smart and interesting people, plus I got to spend face time with the people on my team. However, by the end of the week I was pretty fried. I was able to keep my workout and music practice routine, but didn’t do any biking, partly due to commuting and partly because of the weather.
Saturday was a beautiful day and we went out the beach at Robert Moses State Park. The waves were pretty rough but once you got out past the breakers it was okay, and I took a couple nice swims in the ocean. Sunday it rained all day, so I ended up catching up on my rest and on some random tasks. No mustang, no bike ride this weekend, but I finally got out on my bike again today.
I finished the updates to my music site, including the page for Spacecats, now featuring our new drummer Rick. We’re starting to actively look for gigs, and to that end I’ve started recording our rehearsals, particularly a batch of new originals we’re working up. Hopefully I’ll post some of these soon.
I’ve also been woodshedding the sax part to A Plague of Frogs. I’ve been just laying down a take or two a couple times a week. They started kinda rough but steadily improved. I edited together a full track from all the takes, and it’s pretty much there. Now that I understand the part, I’ve done a few more takes to hopefully bring it to the next level.
Another thing I got done was to take some pictures of my new origami models. The most important of these is the Single-Sheet Stellated Icosahedron, which I’ve been working on since the wintertime, and debuted in my exhibit at the recent OUSA convention. Shown here are two models, one made of 19″ elephant hide, and the other of 15″ skytone paper. The next model is the Halloween Spider I folded to teach my class, made of a 10″ square of some nice tissue foil. Lastly is a Dragon model I came up with as a kid, in third grade or so. I remembered it all at once when a group of us were sitting around talking about early origami experiences and the first models we designed. My brother and I used to fold dozens of them and have epic dragon battles.
