Howdy again! I'm back from Dallas (er, Arlington... as if there is a difference).
I scored a silver medal at the Tai Chi thang -- which sounds good, until you know there were only three fogies in my division (Executive Men Intermediate). However, my numeric score of 8.03 is very respectable, and BETTER than all other intermediate scores from my school... believe me, I was paying attention to that.
So I feel good about it. And, since I was very nervous, I was stiff and more awkward than I should have been. If I can do it *relaxed* next year, I'll rock!
It will still be a couple years before I qualify for advanced competition (need to be doing it 4 years or more).
I got some good feedback on the faces in the last post. Thanks!
Be sure, I'll be putting up how-to information for these and other projects. But not until the season passes. I have an accumulation of project information from the last year and a half that I need to collate and post.
I actually want to write another animatronics book, too -- not sure when -- with some advanced techniques. So I've been LEARNING the advanced techniques.
It's both time consuming and expensive, but it's moving along.