{"id":999,"date":"2005-12-02T10:08:00","date_gmt":"2005-12-02T15:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/?p=999"},"modified":"2005-12-02T10:08:00","modified_gmt":"2005-12-02T15:08:00","slug":"when-you-stop-seeing-beauty-you-start-growing-old","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/?p=999","title":{"rendered":"when you stop seeing beauty \/ you start growing old"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good things about today so far:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Between emulating the solid modeling process on a similar, but not identical, lazy susan tray, having the actual part in front of me with digital calipers handy and a copy of the actual blueprints, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/old\/sst-9x-28%20tray%20pie%20cut%2028ina.jpg\">modeling up<\/a> the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/old\/sst-9x-28%20tray%20pie%20cut%2028in.jpg\">first part<\/a> in SolidWorks is going very smoothly indeed.  I should have it done and drawings made by the end of the day, which should please Bret.<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>People at work.  Ming, the Chinese production engineer who barely speaks any English, is carrying on a very animated cell phone conversation next to me with a cab driver in New York supposedly driving his wife to the airport.  The cabbie evidently made a detour from the route Ming feels he should have followed and they&#8217;re now delayed: &#8220;You make big turn into Manhattan!  No!  Want to go to La Guardia!&#8221; etc&#8230;<br \/>\nMeanwhile, Karl, a very outgoing distribution supervisor of Austrian origin, is joking with Andreas about how they&#8217;re the only two straight men in America who own a pair of Italian-designed red jeans.  Don&#8217;t have the foggiest how they got on that topic.  Later on, Karl gives a waltzing demonstration while mentioning how the rubber soles of his shoes squeaked while dancing at the Austrian 50th anniversary of independence celebration in Vienna&#8230;<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>Received an e-mail from F\u00e9licie today.  No word on whether she received my letter over the summer, but it&#8217;s still nice to hear from her.  Funny how my mind immediately starts planning a trip to France next summer (or sooner)&#8230;<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.livejournal.com\/users\/taborian\/100042.html\">This post<\/a> amused me greatly, especially the Family Circus and auction barker bits.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good things about today so far: Between emulating the solid modeling process on a similar, but not identical, lazy susan tray, having the actual part in front of me with digital calipers handy and a copy of the actual blueprints, modeling up the first part in SolidWorks is going very smoothly indeed. I should have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}