Studio8 - Uniting the Arts

the emperor is mad
and only if I were, would I make time for his speech

one by one the soloists step up give it their all get with the groove blow what they feel not perfect miss a note here out of step there but while lips & fingers might falter the songs in there hearts take form sharing the jam passing it around planting something in the heart of the next soloist to ...

I'm waiting for it to be released on VHS.......

so true - I hadn't actually thought of this as more than a snapshot of workplace dynamics, but that undercurrent is always there. It can run the other way, too - we've all probably extended a hand in friendship only to get it caught in the gears....

the old Cheshire rail-trail... the Birch Hill WMA... Otter River State Forest, and the unnamed woodlands surrounding my house... different churches, same denomination - places of worship to marvel at how enough Small can make a Large - to almost grasp the meaning of why certain trees grow here but n...

Gotcha... I once worked in Quality Control for a manufacturer of single-use medical products - hypodermics, trach tubes, catheters, procedural kits, and the like. It wasn't so much by choice as by necessity - I'd been laid off from the engineering job I'd held for 22 years when the company disbande...

A day doesn't go by that I don't drive by this site and that the desire to be heard prompts me to open Notepad and tappity-tap a few keys to capture the notions within - like setting out a bucket to catch drips from a leaky ceiling... but sometimes the leaks stop on their own sometimes ideas dry up ...

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February 18th, 2026, 12:19 pm

working on my masterpiece ha ha

writing the next Ulysses (I wish)

spring still sleeps
dreaming of warm nights -
so do I

that's one of my newer rants - the linguistic shift of "customer service" from "how might we better serve our customers" to "how can we get our customers more compliant with our wishes?" They've got us by the balls and they know it, and they gleefully shake us down without an ounce of shame. "Don't ...

It's fortunate you're mechanically inclined enough to navigate that territory with some conficence - I'm a mechanical idiot, an unrecontrucated klutz.... I've got an oil-fired forced hot air system, & until 2014 was running the same furnace since the house was built (1974, I think). For years, I nur...

can almost hear a koto playing in the background....

  And Not a Drop To Drink I've had problems with my water supply over the past year, and it's gotten me a little on edge. I've run out on a couple of occasions. Once while I was washing the supper dishes, just before turning in for the night. I turned on the tap to rinse out a soapy skillet - and on...

thanks, John - glad to see you back, glad you liked the story. I like it too - Neil & Tom's backstory is sort of an idealization of my own, though we weren't designing lasers, just evaluating commercially available ones for suitability as components of our own products.

heyyy, long time! Thanks for the Comment. Yeah, it's beautiful out here, but it's been brutally cold. At least it seems to be moderating - it's gotten up above freezing a couple days in a row now. Still got March to get through, but we'll get there. I've just completed another entry for "Stories & E...