Rebuilding the mirror cell in my telescope.

Teaching myself simple HTTP programming by building a full featured web downloader.

Remodel project in our family room.  I'm building a built-in stereo cabinet and shelf unit. I'm also painting the room new colors.  We're getting tired of white walls.

Designing and building low-temperature thermostats to prevent pipe freezing at our Marrowstone cabin.

Rebuilding all the windows on the South side of our house.  The frames have all rotted due to poor construction and water damage.

Painting.  I've got several works in progress at the moment and will post scans of them when they are done.

Maintaining the web site for the Northwest Mahler Festival.

Horn practice: I'm working on a variety of basics at this time including: clean articulations, tone, interval recognition.

I'm working to qualify for the Arp Peculiar Galaxy Club certificate through the Astronomical League.   I will some day add a link to my current status here...

Raising my daughter Fiona

Watching Mars at it's closest approach in over 50,000 years.
Here's a picture I took through my telescope on August 28, 2003:
(Click for a larger image.)

Built a tree-house platform with Fiona.

Drawing class.  Heidi and I took a life drawing class from Robert Hoggard.  I'm not what you'd call a natural talent but if you're curious, you can find some at my Photo Archive web site.

Played solo horn with Turtle Bluff Chamber Orchestra on Ravel's Pavane pour une Infante Defunte.

Played 2nd horn in the Northwest Mahler Festival performance of Mahler's Das Klagende Lied.  One of my musical high points!

Produced CD's of this year's Northwest Mahler Festival concerts.  Go buy one!

Built a garden shed in our back yard.

Tore down and rebuilt the fence in our back yard.

Built a raised bed garden for Fiona to plant vegetables in.

Took John Sisko's figure sculpting class at the Seattle Academy of Fine Arts.  See my finished sculpture in the Photo Archive.

Sorted and processed photos from Europe.  We spent three weeks in London, Paris and Provence in May, 2000 and I took 650 photos.  You can see them at my Photo Archive.

Here are scans of two recent paintings:  

	"A Purple Meets a Red"
	"The Parade Fades as a Conversation Erupts"

Built  a web site for the Philomath High School Class of 1979.

Two years ago, Heidi and I painted our master bedroom.  We were tired of off-white walls, off-white ceilings and off-white everything.  The walls are now bright peach and the ceiling is sky blue with a sine wave border.  It's definitely NOT boring now!

Northwest Mahler Festival: I've helped to organize the 5th, 6th and 7th and 8th annual Northwest Mahler Festivals.    My tasks were:

	Publicity
	Host the web site.
	Design and print flyers, posters, etc.
	Help with database design.
	Put together the CD's of our performances and get them manufactured.

I built an extension for the built in desk in our home office.   The desk is now done and is covered with papers.  I'm quite proud of it.  It presented one major woodworking challenge that I've never done before; I had to make a curved oak molding around the front.   I've also put together matching shelves to hold our printers and scanner.
    The CAD model.
   The desk, as built.
   The curved molding with a 12-inch ruler.

Computer tuner:  I'm writing a program to act as a musical instrument tuner.  If it turns out well, I'll probably publish it as shareware.

Programmable Metronome program: I would like to have a metronome which allows me to program a tempo and beat for a set number of measures, followed by a different tempo for a set number of measures, etc.  It would also have definable accelerandi & ritardandi.  Guess I'll have to write it myself.

Landscape the back yard

Build a visual spectroscope.  OK, this is WAY on the back burner.