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It is warmer today, and sunny. So that’s better than yesterday. But I saw this at one of the nearby sandwich shops.
So I am not, as they say, shook.
So I went back into the studio. I played with the jib and made visual composition jokes:
No jokes here, its an important and serious and informative podcast we created today. Dominick Jean is a smart guy like that:
A late night show some of our students produced:
And their news show:
So much media!
It snowed yesterday. This being spring, and that being the first day of April it made perfect sense:
And it stuck around until this morning and this afternoon.
This being spring, after all. Last night’s snow was the third we’ve had this spring and the fourth or fifth since these guys came out of the ground …
Better to stay inside, curl up and be warm indoors. Because its spring and all that. Here’s a podcast we did for today. It has to do with sports, primarily basketball, which is played indoors.
Also, it’s a good day to cuddle up to the black cat, who, I’m pretty sure, just wants warmer weather. And tuna:
A show the sports crew produced last week and released yesterday:
It snowed this weekend …
And I found this Alec Wilkinson quote: “One of the reasons there are so many terms for conditions of ice is that the mariners observing it were often trapped in it, and had nothing to do except look at it.”
Wilkinson was writing about S. A. Andrée, the visionary Swedish aeronaut who, in 1897, during the great age of Arctic endeavor, left to discover the North Pole by flying to it in a hydrogen balloon.
Andrée and the two other members of his expedition crashed and then lived on the ice for another three months, before they died in some way that’s still a mystery. It was 33 years before the bodies were found, so it’s not as bad as all of that here, I took that picture and went back inside, but still.
It kept snowing.
So I worked in the garage. And I turned my hand sander into a mounted tool. I just cut out a hole in a box and wedged the sander in there:
It worked really well. I could move a piece of wood around the belt rather than the sander over the wood. So I guess I’ll need to build a more permanent version of this one day.
It let me sand this piece into something approaching an even roundness:
I’m making a gift for someone. And I took a bit of scrap pine:
And cut, and sanded, it down to this:
Its a book holder out of a bit of scrap wood. It helps prevent hand strain and keeps the book from closing up on you. Works pretty well, but the thumb hole is too big. That’s why you make prototypes.
Al Green-Love & Happiness, Tired of Being Alone
Sam Cooke-Chain Gang
Marvin Gaye/Tammi Terrell-Your Precious Love pic.twitter.com/vgVizw45Jm
— Kenny Smith (@kennysmith) March 27, 2018
I spent a few minutes in the television studio today with an IDS movie reviewer.
She sits down and does these right after watching the movie. It’s an interesting process. Line, pickup, line, pickup, and then she just jams them all together to get her finished product:
She’s doing that on a DSLR with video capabilities. The studio is a backdrop, a fancy enough setting. But we’re of course producing traditional television productions as well. Here’s a talk show some of the students produced a few days ago. I think so, anyway.
The days tend to run together if you bounce back and forth between the control room and the studio too much. I think it has to do with the darkness in both rooms.
I’m not accustomed to seeing cotton bolls in March. Then again, I’m not accustomed to seeing snow in March, either:
It’s still spring, by the way. And at lunch I saw this second, or third, sign of spring:
It’s hard to keep count, there have been daffodils and the eternal budding-but-not-opening of trees and my first robin of the year, and pointless, too. Winter isn’t hardly done with us yet.
But, for this afternoon’s neighborhood 5K, when it had warmed up to an impossible 46°, I wore a sweatshirt. I did that for the first 1.8 or so, and then discarded it. I ditched it just before the shady and cold segment.
Now, normally that would be one of those things you’d laugh and shiver about. Timing, am I right? But I did this in the neighborhood. I did this in the neighborhood, the place where, presumably, I know where the shady spots are.
So this was a lovely experience. Ten years ago we were at Peju, got a few of these and held on to one. And held on to it and held on to it and held on to it. After a while it became a joke.
Then, as I tend to do, I got sentimental about it. We got some more, so that solved the nostalgia problem. And by then we figured we should probably ought to wait until the 10th anniversary.
Tonight we opened a @PEJU_Winery Provence we got 10 years ago today.
Cork didn't make it, but it was worth the wait.
(Please send more.) pic.twitter.com/6SU3F1m9qM
— Kenny Smith (@kennysmith) March 22, 2018
And here we are. Tonight was the 10th anniversary. The cork didn’t cooperate, but we filtered out the debris.
It was quite tasty after we let it breathe. I don’t know if it was worth hanging on to for all of that time, but it was worth getting sentimental about.
