Not at Hamvention

.     It feels like everyone is headed to Hamvention!  As much as I'd like to go, it just isn't in the cards in my current situation.  Basically, as a young father that travels for work, the vacation time I get is a carefully guarded commodity that is saved exclusively for spending time with my family.  Even thought I'm sure they'd go with me to Hamvention if I asked, I'd rather them enjoy themselves as well during our vacations - looking at radio stuff just doesn't do it for them the way it does for me!
     Just because I'm not there, doesn't mean I'm not doing radio!  I have several irons in the fire.  If you follow me on Twitter or Instagram (check out the links in the sidebar!) you saw the pictures of my progress on the shack.  It now has a ceiling, and a good portion of it's electrical:

     I'll get into details of how I made the ceiling, in another post specifically about the shack, but I'm please with how it turned out.  I'm going for the whole "Old English Pub meets Mad Scientist Lair" look for my shack, and I love the way this turned out!
     I also have another very tall "iron" (hint hint) in the fire but I don't want to get into that too much, because if it works out I don't want to jinx it - just do me a favor and put your good vibes out into the universe for me!

     Are you at Hamvention?  If so, what are you up to?  If you're not, what are doing to keep busy?  Leave a comment and let me know!

P.S.  The next round of info that I'll need input for on the Crowd-Sourced project will be coming soon!