It was a fairly low key long weekend. Traditionally Memorial Day kicks of the summer, but the weather has been mainly cold and rainy again. Sunday it got up to 65 and cloudy, and Monday was 70 and partly sunny, so at least we had a little barbecue. Jeannie and I went for a bike ride on the local trail. This time I did sixteen miles in an hour and ten minutes. My time does not seem to be improving much.
Mostly we spent the weekend catching up on our rest after all our travels, and doing random tasks. Michelle bought some new furniture, mainly bookshelves, and I help her set them up. She’s acquired a fairly extensive comic book collection in college, so I’ve been reading some classic X-Men comics such as The Dark Phoenix Saga. I’d forgotten how much then they are. Also I put a new battery in the Mustang because it wouldn’t start. Now it’s happily running again. And of course trimming the shrubbery and other yardwork.
Most years this time of year I put together a new playlist for summer backyard hanging out. This year I think the theme will be my Top 40 Favorite Prog Rock Songs. Fewer songs than usual, but it’ll probably be just as long.
One longstanding task I finally got around to was a video tutorial for an origami event I’ll being doing with CFC this fall. The model is my Semi-Sunken Icosahedron. I practiced folding it a couple times and really drilled down on the details to perfect the folding sequence. I’m pretty happy with the resulting model, and the video. This also got me back into doing origami, which I haven’t really done much of in the past year. It’s a good thing too, cuz there’s a convention coming up soon, and I’d like to have something new to teach and exhibit.
Continuing to defrag my studio. I’m up to the last major task: sifting thru and consolidating my many old boxes of origami. I’m throwing out alot of stuff, but also finding lots of cool ideas and works-in-progress I’d largely forgotten about.
I don’t have my drum mics plugged into my new DAC yet, but I’ve gotten up to rough mixes for the first batch of four tunes on the Spellbound project. I’ll be sharing those soon. Meanwhile, up next is another lyric.