Get together

by Duf Anything and Everything

Last night after work Cindy and I went over to the school to ride around, we brought her skateboard, the OneWheel, the Meepo and the 18L.  My hope was Cindy would get some practice time in so she gets more comfortable on the Meepo and the OneWheel.  She did ride the Meepo around a little bit but didn’t want to try the OneWheel.  Despite being able to ride an EUC she still has a lot of fear issues which hold her back from progressing.  When she gets on her focus is a fear of falling which derails you immediately and makes the entire experience stressful instead of enjoyable.  I’m not really sure how she can turn off that switch and just let her natural athletic ability take over.   I mean hell, she rode the Msuper EUC in the middle of very crowded Boston sidewalks and streets last year.  She can do it.

Katie and Daniel came by to ride as well.  Daniel is a big fan of the Meepo.  I also let them both rind my 18L for the first time.  They agreed that the 18L is another level of smoothness and quality that they have never experienced on their Gotway wheels.  They also both liked I could stream the 30 Seconds to Mars Pandora channel to the built in speakers on the wheel. Katie and Daniel came back to the house with us to eat a tasty taco dinner that Cindy prepared, it was nice to have the gang under one roof, it doesn’t happen much.

Last night I started on a big 3D printing project for my buddy from up north, Charlie.  He is opening a virtual golf center and needs roughly 1000 small pieces printed that will be used to identify clubs and stations.  He has one 3D printer, a Flashforge Finder but printing that many pieces would take him forever on one printer with a small build area.  He asked if I would be willing to help print them.  Of course I was happy to help since I have six printers in the hobby room.  I should be able to get the work done in a fraction of the time it would take him.

Charlie offered to pay me which I of course refused.  All he has to do is provide me the filament to print the stuff.  He has helped me out so many times in the past, doing something like this for him is the very least I can do.  Charlie is one of the nicest human beings I have ever known.  He is walking away from his career as a programmer to jump with both feet into trying to launch this business.  It’s an extremely gutsy move but I applaud him for being willing to chase his dream.