Pretty cool article here about hi-tech photography overlapping with history and religion.Monks use hi-tech camera to read ancient texts.
In more mundane news, spent the day yesterday cleaning up our old Tuffy center console and getting it ready for a new coat of paint to match the interior of the new 'Cruiser. Despite the large number of very small rust spots and scratches in the finish, that Tuffy powder coating was difficult to get off. Took a few hours of grinding away at it with a wire brush on an angle grinder... then hitting the whole thing with sandpaper to get it cleaned up. Looking forward to finishing the repaint so I can use it. Also got the clutch re-adjusted. Seems that part of the problem associated with our recent clutch-less-ness was that some idiot failed to tighten the bleeder valve on the slave. Since I am the only person to have worked on that, ever (new part), it is looking like the idiot is me. The upside is that I've gotten even better at clutchless shifting. Which is a pretty esoteric skill, but hey, at least I've got that. Swapped out a connector rod on the clutch master, so hopefully the whole system will work much better now. Hopefully.
Also managed to fix the rear wiper, swap out the lock on the rear tailgate to match the ignition, and generally cleaned a few things up.
Oh- before it seems like the whole weekend was cruiser cruiser cruiser.... I did spend the better part of Saturday morning touring a beautiful ranch on horseback with a client. Which was a wonderful way to spend the morning! Stinks to be working on Saturday, but really, it is hard to call a horseback ride through the mountains, followed by a cool drink on the patio with some nice people, "work".
The four hour meeting I had in the afternoon with other area realtors, trying to hash out a voluntary road maintenance tax, *that* was work. Yuck.