Small fish, big sea – and here we are again. Starting another bog, decades deep in the most chronic addiction I have ever known, and Baby, I’ve Been Here Before. Digitalis. Who knew.

Shot away I am. Concentration-span about 15 seconds. I can’t even listen to a pop song all the way through right now.

My last career fell to burnout – computer programmer… the story about “why to quit” that I finally settled on, is “that programming is quite engaging – like a game of chess, but if you spend a year doing it… then look back on the year, the only things you can remember… the only “life”, is time not spent in front of a screen”

Roll forward 17 years, and everything is 1000 times worse, and it’s not even my job any more.

For the last 17 years I have been making these https://goldenmeancalipers.com – hand-made mathematical gadgets, with my labour leveraged by CNC and laser-cutting machines. Automated polishers etc… I have sold about 2 million $ worth of them – but the wheel has turned, and now once again, I am an artist starving in a garret.

It’s a big garret, and holy hell it is cold right now. In about 4 months it will be mind-meltingly hot.

Time to reinvent.

I am interested in music, computers, digital fabrication, art, magic, history, psychedelics, and fun – so I’m trying to combine all of those into a single thing – which due to the burnout dramas, has taken a sod of a long time.

The plan is to do music, guitar-building, writing, video, and Spacer-making all at the same time, each one contributing to the other.

Or more simply :

1) make mad looking guitars as clickbait in the service of selling Spacers.
2) sell Spacers so I can carry on making mad looking guitars,
3) which will trap me into playing live again.