As a friend pointed out to me recently, most people are rotten at soldering (you know who are are, gloppy blobbers). I am included among the lame solderers, and decided to say “bullshit – this is a skill I can acquire”, so my first stop, as usual, was wikipedia. Their article, while informative, was not as helpful as the first external link they pointed to:

http://www.solderinguide.com/

Very good stuff and ad-free, which is surprising. BTW, wikipedia is having another fundraiser and it’s a good cause so if you can, go donate blah blah etc. Oh and Merry Christmas and Happy New Year – I have a feeling it’s going to be a very good year

We sent the I.S.S. crew a greeting card, and you can, too – just go here: http://www.nasa.gov/externalflash/postcard/
Here’s the one we sent (the back of it anyway – there are 4 fronts you can choose from, we picked the floating spaceman):

When you click the [SEND] button you get this message, which is cool – it’s like it’s actually uploading the card to the space station heh:

Muggy said we forgot Hoppy (our dog) so we sent them one from her, too:

Ha, my lame Ascii art reminds me of K-9

This post has been deleted. I sometimes impulsively post things before they should be released, and because I am something of a perfectionist I go back later and go, “ahhh, I don’t know about that, or this thing bothers me” etc. etc.

So while it is assured that there will be an Electric Man II, it is too soon to be posting details, and dialog that in retrospect seemed somewhat stilted. All I can say in my defense is I was caught up in the excitement of the moment, and wanted to share. (However, to the RSS subscribers who got this sneak peak, well all I can say is “bonus dude!” (or dudette. or whatever).

So there you have it.