I'm Running Late This Week

I have been very busy these last couple of weeks. After months of design, I have my first prototypes that I am getting up and running. This is really when my company will see whether I actually know what I am doing or not. You can fudge your way through the design part, but when the actual hardware arrives everyone will know if it works of if it doesn't. Things are looking really good right now with no major mistakes, but I have a long way to go. There is a big trade show mid-September where four of my newly designed products will be released. I have to provide working samples of all of them (yikes)!

Fortunately, I've been doing creative things as well as working. I have been able to write a few new songs over the last few weeks (songs that I actually like). I may post links to them so that I can get some feedback. I also recorded some harmonica parts for an old SLC friend, Chris Gino Dean, who is working on a new album. Chris impresses me, he is continually writing new songs and recording new albums. It seems like it was just a few months ago that I was playing at his first CD release, but really it was a year ago this past February.

I have also finished another book, "Orthodoxy", by G.K. Chesterton, which had been recommended by a couple of friends. I really enjoyed the book. Chesterton goes through and explains how he came to believe that Christianity is true, and he looks at some of the essentials of the Christian faith. Mostly I liked it because it was filled with great individual quotes. The kind of lines that you can pull out and they sound incredibly witty and intelligent. For example: "We should thank God for beer and Burgundy by not drinking too much of them" and "Imagination does not breed insanity. Exactly what does breed insanity is reason". I may dedicate a future post to quotes from this book.

Last week I suffered my second major wreck on the bike ride home from work. The first wreck, if you didn't hear or don't remember, ended up with myself and my bike half submerged in the canal in the dark in the middle of winter. This time there was no water involved, but I tore my left knee apart and sprained both of my wrists. I'm glad I always wear a helmet, because I took a severe knock to the head as well.

So, my post is a little bit scattered this week, but that is the way my life is right now. Next Thursday, we hop on a plane for a few days in Paris. I am definitely looking forward to a few days of good food and relaxing.

JE