San Diego’s been quite fun, and not too stressful. Aside from the sunburn I got yesterday from sitting in an abandoned lot all day, I’ve no complaints. I’ve been dancing twice so far, and had dinner with some friends of the family (our family, not the family). I’m scheduled to see my cousin tomorrow, and head back tomorrow night. All in all, not bad.
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Off to San Diego tomorrow (super-early).
A few nights ago, I built myself a tailstock cam lock. It’s pretty simple, but it works. I still need to finish up a few detail-oriented things, but it’s mostly done – go me!
Now I guess I just need a project that requires the use of a lathe, since I’ve made most of the modifications to the lathe I want to make. Any suggestions? Probably I’ll make a few more candlesticks, and maybe a steam engine.
The MIT Dance Troupe Concert is this weekend – we’re performing our lindy hop routine (that we’ll be competing with at NADC). It’s coming along well, and I just have to remember that we have some time to improve between the Dance Troupe show and NADC.
Passover seder last night was, by far, the speediest I’d ever been to. I guess I know I’m getting older, ’cause I actually hoped it would go a bit longer. I went to the downstairs neighbors’ for the occasion, and it was their first time with new haggadah’s – hence the speedy version (they just skipped ahead when they didn’t know what to do). One cup of wine and some matzah later, we were done with the ritual and on to the meal. Oh well…
More work with the lathe (a camlock for the tailstock) on tap for tonight after dinner with Steve & TJ.
Nathaniel & TJ came over on Saturday morning and we had some fun welding & lathe times. We welded some big steel plates together, and also made some simple wire sculptures. On the lathe, we made an adapter for a wire brush to go on the bench grinder (the hole through the wire brush wheel was a bunch bigger than the arbor on the bench grinder). Fun fun!
Off to San Diego in a few weeks for work – what’s good out there? I’ve heard lots about the fish tacos, but not much else.