General

Several of you have inquired what’s been going on and why it’s been so long between blog posts. So, here’s the deal. It’s been a rough few months. I don’t feel like going into too much detail, but our family has been hit by a pretty difficult streak of illnesses. Thankfully, our immediate family is fine, but we lost my mother-in-law to an illness and both my parents have spent the better part of the last few months in the hospital or nursing care.

I may be the engineer in the family, but my wife is the inventor. Being an engineer is easy. You go to school to learn well established laws and methods. When you get a job, there are others who can mentor you and show you the ropes. If you need to know more, there are training classes to take. Someone else, usually marketing, decides what needs to be to be designed. All you have to do is follow the rules. Being an inventor is hard. There is no school for inventing, nobody to teach you the ropes, and no classes to tell you how to do things.

(The following is the text of an email I received this afternoon from a friend of mine in the Bay Area. I thought it was great and so I am sharing it with you, with his permission. If you would like to help him “unload his burden”, please let me know and I can put you in touch). __________ Hi all, Ok, so let me preface this by saying that I know I have a very deep and very hard to cope with, mental illness.  Somehow I feel that makes this more acceptable. As you may or may not know, we are moving.

I know it has been a while since I added new posts. There has been a lot going on here lately - new addition to the family, new job and some more smaller things, which keep me relatively busy lately. Don’t give up on me just yet. I promise to keep the interesting posts coming, although maybe not on a weekly basis as I tried doing before. Hope you guys understand…