3D Virtual Modelling, Northern Coast Travels, Low Pressure Fronts
I've had trouble finding inspiration for blog posts for some reason. Last night I stayed up staring at the screen for a half-hour before giving up and moving on to the other project that competes for my limited computer time. The 3D "Google SketchUp" project that I am working on for Yoli is kind of neat-o, however. It involves using CAD generated floorplans and side-views of a proposed city hall building to create a 3D virtual model. The model can then be embedded publicly in "Google Earth", along with rough 3D approximations that I will create from the surrounding buildings. Last night I became so engulfed by the rhythm of piecing together forms and solving scale problems that I didn't realize until 8 in the morning that I hadn't slept and it was time for breakfast.
On another front, Chris and I are still working on our proposals for weaseling free stays at various rural cabins and hotel establishments for traveling adventures in June and July, respectively. In exchange for translating and creating an English language duplicate of their existing websites, we're hoping they're willing to invite us for a few days of tranquility in the countryside- in several of the northern autonomous communities (kind of like small states) of Spain: Basque Country, Aragon, and Cataluyna. We sent out our proposals over email yesterday to about 70 places, we have our fingers crossed.
So far, the last week of July and first week of August make up the great light at the end of my tunnel. KO arrives in Madrid and we stay in the city for two nights. Next we drive up, in a rented min-car, to a good spot in Aragon where hopefully the owners of a quaint 'casa rural' await us with grateful, open arms, in awe of our website changing capabilities. Shortly thereafter, we cross the French Border the day before tour stage 17 (or 16?) ends at a mountain top finish, camping out for a prime view of the action. Following the tour stage we descend back into Spain, heading in what is for me uncharted territory, as I have never seen the northern coast of Spain, with the exception of Galicia. I'd like to stop in Bilbao to see the Guggenheim and San Sebastian to go to the beach and see a concert from the international jazz festival there. If time allows, we drop down to Alcoy by way of Barcelona, pausing there for a night or two. Then it's a few days of farewell to our dear gypsy cave here in on Calle Reconquista before catching a flight from Alicante to Madrid on the 7th of August.
As of now, I am riding 1-2.5 hours a day, taking it easy. I can at least ride comfortably again. I'm still planning, as far as I know, to head somewhere looking for a ticket to the open seas and an opportunity to learn everything I can about sailboats. I'd guess I'll embark on that journey within a few weeks at the latest, lest that date is preceded by a visit from the patron saint of cycling, Mother Ghisallo, and she bestows upon me some miraculous recovery of the articular persuasion.
The three of us have a good little family dynamic going on here, and though it's been an emotionally taxing month under despotic skies of rain and gloomy nastiness, beneath suffocating low pressure fronts resonating with the evil frequency of their spirit-staining twin, that lurking demon conjured up within the echoes of superstitious whispers and half-thoughts and doubts ("Injury"); despite all of it, we're enjoying depending on one another for our sanity.
Hopefully until sooner than later,
Sam
On another front, Chris and I are still working on our proposals for weaseling free stays at various rural cabins and hotel establishments for traveling adventures in June and July, respectively. In exchange for translating and creating an English language duplicate of their existing websites, we're hoping they're willing to invite us for a few days of tranquility in the countryside- in several of the northern autonomous communities (kind of like small states) of Spain: Basque Country, Aragon, and Cataluyna. We sent out our proposals over email yesterday to about 70 places, we have our fingers crossed.
So far, the last week of July and first week of August make up the great light at the end of my tunnel. KO arrives in Madrid and we stay in the city for two nights. Next we drive up, in a rented min-car, to a good spot in Aragon where hopefully the owners of a quaint 'casa rural' await us with grateful, open arms, in awe of our website changing capabilities. Shortly thereafter, we cross the French Border the day before tour stage 17 (or 16?) ends at a mountain top finish, camping out for a prime view of the action. Following the tour stage we descend back into Spain, heading in what is for me uncharted territory, as I have never seen the northern coast of Spain, with the exception of Galicia. I'd like to stop in Bilbao to see the Guggenheim and San Sebastian to go to the beach and see a concert from the international jazz festival there. If time allows, we drop down to Alcoy by way of Barcelona, pausing there for a night or two. Then it's a few days of farewell to our dear gypsy cave here in on Calle Reconquista before catching a flight from Alicante to Madrid on the 7th of August.
As of now, I am riding 1-2.5 hours a day, taking it easy. I can at least ride comfortably again. I'm still planning, as far as I know, to head somewhere looking for a ticket to the open seas and an opportunity to learn everything I can about sailboats. I'd guess I'll embark on that journey within a few weeks at the latest, lest that date is preceded by a visit from the patron saint of cycling, Mother Ghisallo, and she bestows upon me some miraculous recovery of the articular persuasion.
The three of us have a good little family dynamic going on here, and though it's been an emotionally taxing month under despotic skies of rain and gloomy nastiness, beneath suffocating low pressure fronts resonating with the evil frequency of their spirit-staining twin, that lurking demon conjured up within the echoes of superstitious whispers and half-thoughts and doubts ("Injury"); despite all of it, we're enjoying depending on one another for our sanity.
Hopefully until sooner than later,
Sam
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