Indoor Outdoor

Went to the back building, stepped over a box of tax shit waiting to be organized for last year's taxes (which my accountant is making me do earlier and earlier each year), pushed back some clothing from a rack, moved a roll of leather and pulled out Heinrich Engel's large, beautiful and dense 1964 classic book "The Japanese House, A Tradition for Contemporary Architecture.

Stopped for awhile and talked about why an editor would disallow the use of the future tense in an article concerning the future.

Was going to brush up on concepts of the openness of the indoor and inclusion of the outdoor in traditional Japanese houses.  It got to be too technical and erudite after awhile and anyways why read about something when you're living it already.

The blurring of what is out and what is in when in is out and out is in.  Might be a good topic to rubic's cube it during the Death Valley Trip.  You know twist the cube around and around looking for the final pattern.

Outdoor Indoor.

It's not very often something like this comes.  I'm going to be obtuse about it right now because maybe it's really too soon to say anything about it.  Too soon to say one more twist of the cube and the pattern will be right.  I've done this enough to know just like Firesign Theater's 1974 recording "Everything You Know Is Wrong", everything I think I know about this project will not be the way it ends up.
But that's the creative process, you gotta start somewhere, got to put down one thought, one idea in order to lead to the next.  And that one will lead to another if you let it.  Maybe it leads back to the first or not.  Maybe you end up with the rubic's cube not in pattern but in random because the in, in the out is just better that way.

An empty glass of Mezcal on the way to being full again.

We're going to try and not even mention one particularly dirty aspect of the project....ever.
Maybe.

On a more grounded note.

Further design work on the new weatherstripping model.  Smaller diameter surgical tubing, smaller diameter rod and widening the slot so I can insert a lockable key.  I'll attach by screws in order to remove it later on in case.