Cola explosion

Friends brought dinner over and we finished off the evening with a cola explosion. Phoebe caught it on video.

soft circuits

Don't think that I have time on my hands. You know me! My mind is always cruising along and I need to be thinking about something. That being said, while my bread rises: It really bothers me when I don't understand something. One such concept has been electricity and circuitry. I have been tinkering with project ideas from this book Fashioning Technology. While I took physics in college, the true-life application slipped me by. No longer! I shall understand a circuit through embroidery if it kills me!
What has so-far been accomplished? I have (successfully) used Ohm's Law to figure out how many resistors to use for a circuit. That circuit completed and I didn't burn out my LED. Now I know that I really want some cool conductive thread.
Ideas abound for this: purses with lights, little decorations, the crawfish family pot wall hanging, etc. As I complete them, you'll see 'em.
I also realize that sometimes my blog writings aren't getting across what I mean. I am working on that. To better understand what the heck a soft circuit is and what it looks like, check out this cute frog embroidery.

Crack o' Dawn

Got up way too early for my own good. My mother-in-law laughed at me because I was smiling. I am not a morning person and for me to smile in the morn, well, it is a rare occurance. Almost as rare as why we were up that early.
We saw Jack Horkheimer on PBS tell us about the weekly astronomical event. Right before sunrise Uranus and Mars were to be next to each other on the horizon. Didn't see them, but had a glorious drive along the river with my family. No camera, but had binocs. Go figure.