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Subject: RE: [motm] My family thinks I have lost it

From: "Aardvark-mi" <aardvark-mi@...>
Date: 2001-02-12

I drive my wife crazy when I'm building a module..."LOOK HONEY!!! The resisters are done!! Isn't it neat!!!" a little while later "LOOK HONEY!!! The capacitors are done!!! HONEY?  honey? you're not looking..............honey?.............".
 
Anyway, welcome to this list!
 
Al Wagner
-----Original Message-----
From: bruce@... [mailto:bruce@...]
Sent: Monday, February 12, 2001 12:11 AM
To: motm@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [motm] My family thinks I have lost it

Ok.

Some of you may not think this is a big deal, and all of you without
sin may cast the first stone.

Last night I built my power supply.  First module, no big deal as it
was pretty much bold and connect with almost no soldering.

Today, I was going to tackle the easiest of the kits that I got in my
first batch, the MOTM-800 Envelope.  So about 15 minutes ago I
finished and tightened up the knobs.  I ran out of the garage and into
the house to show everyone. Yeah, even made my dear wife look at it.

I cannot stop smiling.  It was not a big deal or super tough, but it
has been a dream of mine to have a modular synth since I was about 12
and got to see the one at the UofI in Champagin IL.  My "over the top"
dream was that I could actually build my own.  But in school I went
software instead of hardware, and even though I spent a good 4 years
in the military doing Avionics, I lack the design skills to do the
full life cycle.

So I am sure it has been said before, but thanks to Paul and everyone
else who put work into making these things real.  It is truely a dream
come true for me, and it is tough to feel the joy of building it. 

So tomorrow night I move myself up the skill scale and take on my
filter.

8-)

Bruce Henderson
(still grinning from ear to ear)