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-----Ok.
From: bruce@sigalarm.com [mailto:bruce@...]
Sent: Monday, February 12, 2001 12:11 AM
To: motm@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [motm] My family thinks I have lost it
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)