It’s been a long time since I posted news about Astoria Makers. For the most part I hibernated the business from public view. As an individual compromised by poor lung function, I had to be extremely careful as the COVID-19 virus threatened those of us with higher risk factors. Best to hunker down and avoid unnecessary contact. Thanks to those of you that wore your masks to protect yourselves, your families, and everyone else in our world community. Thanks to the scientists that developed new vaccines in record time and deployed it under the most challenging of circumstances. I’m now one of those considered fully vaccinated and ready to rejoin the world in a new normal. Whatever that is. I hope you join me as one of those fully vaccinated as soon as you possibly can.

While the world spun on, I was busy working on existing or new projects or learning new skills like many of you out there. From doing a boot camp of self learning Autodesk’s Fusion360, dabbling in Blender, learning Javascript animation and 3D, C++/C# software development, designing new lights, nature photography, designing and building whimsical art pieces I call spinners to renovating a woodshop and building a shop courtyard and garden. All work purposely designed to keep my mind off the fear of getting this terrible disease or to hide the large time gap and distance from being with my loved ones.

Going forward, I will be playing a little catchup to document these pandemic projects. I hope you find these pursuits of interest.