MOTM

I just joined into your group here. I appreciate Dave (Moe) for 
notifying you all about Dad and Anne's passing. I wasn't sure how to 
pass it along to you all, but I knew it was critical that I did.

Dave has already started helping me to ensure my Dad's website 
(wiseguysynth.com) will stay up. I would like to make it begin with a 
small memorial page in his honor, but otherwise I'd like it to remain 
intact, or to grow and be enhanced as appropriate.

I loved watching my Dad build his modules. I bought him the drill 
press he used to drill your panels for Christmas one year :-). I had 
a lot of EE classes in college, but I forgot too much of it to follow 
it as fast as he wanted to show it to me. He would positively glow 
when he talked about all the things in his rack. He'd tell me be 
about the people behind the names like Synthesis Technologies, Blacet 
Research, and Catgirl Synth. You all contributed to him just as he 
gave back to you. I was just beginning to look at building him some 
cabinets as I am becoming an avvid hobbiest woodworker these days. He 
was SO PROUD of the work he did with you and I know he was VERY PROUD 
to call you all his friends.

With Dave's assistance, I hope to be able to ensure that any orders 
are fulfilled. Also, any parts that wind up leftover, I want to make 
sure get sold. I am not interested in the money part of it, I just 
want to ensure that the work he's done gets out there for him to live 
on in your synth cabinets, and in your hearts.

If there are any specific modules that he's designed that are solely 
owned by him, I'd like to make any of those designs public domain. 
There is a ton of stuff here to go through related to MOTM. It's 
mostly notepads of engineering diagrams and such. I know he would 
want anything he could share with you all to be shared, so I will do 
my best to accomodate that desire.

Eventually, I plan to come back and read each and every kind word and 
posting I see that you have all left about my father. In reading a 
few already, I've noticed a common thread that you all have been able 
to use him for reference, advice, and guidance. As a father, he 
provided me with those things about all aspects of life. He was a 
mentor, role model, and guide for me. If you had developed the 
impression over these bit streams that tie us together that you were 
dealing with a good man, I am here to let you know that you were more 
right than you could imagine.

I'd like to leave a couple of parting thoughts in this post in regards
to some things of related and not so related comments:

- Fathers, take time to tell your sons you love them and how proud 
of them you are. Father-son relationships can be tough when it comes 
to communication because... well... we're guys. Speaking with people 
close to my father, I'm find out that he told many people about how 
proud he was of his sons, even though it wasn't always so clearly 
apparent to me how much. Go out of your way when you can to 
communicate your feelings to your children.

- You folks... the MOTM elite... you represent a unique family for 
each other. I know my Dad felt that way. Whatever positive attitudes 
you felt he contributed, please help keep those pattens alive in the 
group.

- The temptation to built the "ultimate-super-cool-mega-power" set of 
modules is overwhelming. My dad enjoyed the work so much. Along the 
way, stop and smell the roses... use your modules, bask in the glory 
of what you've created and play! It's no fun to build and build if 
hardly get to use them.

Ok, I've poured my heart out a bit too much at this point, so I'll 
let you guys get back to it. Forgive the rambling and any grammar and 
spellng errors. I will remain a member of this group for a while so I 
can read your posts and keep you apprised of how things are going 
with his MOTM items. 

Take care, and keep having fun with those synths!!!

Jim (James L Hendry Jr)