The Uncertainty Principle: Dr. Heimlich: The Early Years

Little BB says "things are great!"

Accomplishing much--
beautiful weather..
Planting and planning for the spring...
building watches....

Personal EDC stuff I have carried for years....

My battered cigarette case
often carried in BDU pockets--

My Moleskine daily journal/notebook,
coupled with an unbreakable $5.00 Chinese fountain pen
I have had for years now...

totally agree with Trevor Noah
who says:
the only people in the United States
who have actively embraced the metric system
and use it in daily life
are
fucking drug dealers?

How the fuck does that work?
The United States and Myanmar (Burma)

are the only two countries in the world not on the metric system..
Myanmar--we're proud to be with you against the world!

If, according to governmental legend,
drug dealers are demented, drop-out losers.
Then how the fuck are they the only below average Americans
able to do this math conversion in their little pinheads correctly
or else it costs them their money or their lives?

This week marked 62 years since the first public polio vaccine inoculations were given.
Thank you Jonas Salk

I still remember lining up in kindergarten in 1957 for my shot.
FREE--the government used to do this kind of public
good for FREE..

Parents were so relieved that the disease that had struck down so
many children had been conquered.
Did i mention the Government gave it away for FREE?

You may think that watchmaking is all white lab coats,
perfection in work through a combination of Nerd engineering and science in action.

This detailed, intensive work would then be

followed up by showing off with a watch you hand built
just styling the fuck out of it?

HA!--WRONG!
I have spent the last four days, working on two watches,
grinding away at a combination of attempted repairs on one
watch and building myself a new personal mechanical watch.

The watch repair/building process operates much this way:
disassemble--check for possible problem--measure--replace part?
clean part?--reinstall part--super clean everything--re-assemble--check for function--?
FUCKING THING DOES NOT WORK

disassemble--check for possible problem--measure--replace different part?
clean part?--super clean everything--reinstall part--re-assemble--check for function--?

FUCKING THING DOES NOT WORK

and
so on and so on and so on---
until your eyes can no longer focus and your head wants to blow up!
But then, suddenly out of the blue after days of attempts, parts changes
and dozens of
assembly and dis-assembly contortions,
completely by accident
you stumble exhausted into that idea on
how to make it work???