The weekend, as usual, was way too short! But I got about 3/4 of the stuff planned done.
Editing the book now, I'm up to chapter 6 of 18 working on the paper. I'll put the edits into the computer once I'm done.
The first chapters are pretty darn good, though one of them (introduction to physical forces and stuff) still makes me a bit nervous. Oh well.
I have detailed reviews up through chapter 8 so far. I'm pretty sure my later chapters, since I started at National, are not so good. Hopefully I'm wrong, or can fix them up during this pass. I have a couple more weekends to make them good.
I didn't pour the rubber arm this weekend, so I'll do that tonight or something. It shouldn't take too long. I've been nervous about each new task with the new, and horribly expensive, materials. But it's going pretty good.
I'll be taking pictures of the processes when I go through them "for real" for the rest of the Trails props. Then, of course, they go online under the Halloween section. Ultimately, I want to do a sequel to the animatronics book
Maybe it would be nice to turn this blog into a project journal again... like Boris was. Dunno. I was also thinking of writing the UnDead story under a different topic here, but that might make it un-publishable due to the electronic distribution.
Speaking of which, I need to pester the publisher of Applied Robotics. That book has errors in it, and we really should fix them.
I'm excited about having Nik come to visit, just a couple weeks out now.
Other than that, I'm sleepy. Hard to sleep in on the weekends when the cats are fighting over the bed... and of course, we get to sleep late most weekend nights.