Wooden Box, School, and Links

Making a box. No power tools here, just saws, planes, pencils and squares.

School
School starts for 3/4 of our family on Tuesday: M to a new school for sixth grade, K to his comfortable old school for fourth, and J to her middle school as the Media Clerk. Work starts for me on Tuesday the way it always does, with Diet Mt. Dew and deleting most of the email I've received since the last time I was at work.

Soccer practice started Thursday. Someday I won't be reporting on soccer practices any more, but I'm expecting a few more years.

We took a quick weekend trip to Pittsburgh to see J's grandmother, who doesn't come close to acting her age. At her house, 97 looks like 80 for most people. She'll bury us all.

Projects
I'm obviously working on a wood project - this one is a secret until further notice, but it is similar to some projects I've done in the past. It involves a wooden box (poplar), carving (basswood), and magic incantations. Oops, I've said too much.

My Arduino project is on hold for now because I'm working on the wood project, and I was also sidetracked by the software I wrote for the Run-a-thon. But soon I'll be back with it. In the meantime, I made good on my threat to buy the book Making Things Move, and I also purchased this ultrasonic sensor, which I plan to use to help determine the position of a certain moving object that will be controlled by the Arduino and some user input. Stay tuned.

A Few Fun Links
Jeff De Boer's creations are pretty cool.

You've officially run out of excuses for not constructing your own Saturn V rocket or Hubble telescope.

I haven't had a lot of time to look at this PDF more closely, but it's full of interesting ideas for hiding things.

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