Marching Towards Ann Arbor

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Marching with the Band

M's enthusiasm for marching is infectious.

Last Friday, hundreds of lucky Pioneer High School football fans were treated to the musical stylings of the marching band, starring M and a cast of dozens.


The marching band graces the field at Pioneer.


M is the middle saxophone in this picture. And by the way, I didn't say so before, but in case you didn't know already, M is going to be the Drum Major next year.

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A New Work Building


This is the sidewalk to what was formerly the main entrance to our building in Dexter.

After 22 years in the same building, my company is moving to a new Ann Arbor location. Most of my coworkers have already moved, and the rest of us will move this weekend.

I'll miss the old building, although it is time to move on and drive a different direction in the morning. The new building is a little closer to home than the Dexter office, so I will save a few minutes each day.


I'll also miss Cameron Balloons, one of the few companies in the world that makes hot air balloons. Here's a picture I took a few days ago behind their building - they're running a fan to fill the balloon with air, and the guy sitting on the ground looking at his phone is holding a rope or cable of some kind that's attached to the top of the balloon. To keep it from flying away, I guess.

As we have been moving out of the old building, we have been throwing out the junk that's accumulated over the years. Some of the items go onto tables, where they will either be recycled or grabbed for use by another employee. I found an old pair of speakers and thought I'd do a project with them.


Just your run-of-the-mill computer speakers.



I took the speakers out and replaced them with computer case fans. The idea was to have some fans that looked like speakers, and the transplant was successful. However, the mesh covering the fans blocks a lot of the air from the fans, and the vibrations of the fans in the light plastic casing makes them fairly noisy. So, the experiment didn't really work out, but it was worth a try.

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