This past week I have had to take a hiatus from continuing work on the Protostar as well as a couple of other parallel builds, The main reason is I am trying to shake off a very severe "cough due to cold".
While loading up on cough syrup, cough drops, and my wife's wonderful Korean medicinal tea, I have not done much venturing into the basement la-BOR-atory to execute balsa butchering and to slop glue on model rockets.
Instead, this period of relative rest and recoop has been devoted to sorting and giving some organization to the vast collection of model rocket written material which I have been accumulating over the past two years and a half. This includes rocket plans, instructions, fin templates, downloaded how-to articles, printouts of Model Rocketry Magazine issues, printouts of vintage catalogs, letters, photos, design doodles...the list goes on.
Armed with a stack of binders, labels, sheet protectors, page dividers, and a page-corner-rounder clipping tool, a have made substantial progress in converting this mish-mash of paper material into a well-sorted and efficiently organized model rocket reference library.
This upcoming month I have requests for a few Christmas gifts to be completed in the woodshop. Much of my time and energy will be diverted to these projects.
Also, the Christmas season is always a time of increased demand for my musical prowess on electric violin, so there will be a definite spike in the amount of time devoted to practice, group rehearsals, and music presentations.
The 'Steampunkery' just might have to wait until the New Year....
Cheers!