Thursday (6/9/22) Neither Grant nor Mickey were available today so I worked on the website and some other paperwork and planning type things. I also did some calendar work. Friday (6/10/22) Mickey came down and helped out on the wiring all day. Grant had the day off. Mickey estimated another 6-8 hou...

Monday 6/6/22 Keith came over and finished the steps and the benches. Unfortunately the tape on the steps wasn't set right so those will need touched up. And also unfortunately the boards of the benches were placed side by side before they dried so they all stuck together and the paint ripped off wh...

Friday Grant had to work his dayjob until afternoon, but came over and knocked out more stuff on the side walls and ceiling. I worked on emails and other process stuff. Leila and Kate came over to help in the evening. We got some stairs painted and the bench sanded and washed. We also got a metal ba...

Things have gone more smoothly this week. Grant, a man of many artistic and construction talents, has been helping me move the structure from my house to the new space. Perhaps more accurately said, I am helping him. He is a pro. He's designed and built some of the amazing bikes at the Austin Bike Z...

Well this week has not been the whirlwind of successes that I had hoped. Despite thinking that I had planned really well on both budget and time, I clearly underestimated things. I'm going to document as many as I can recall so that I might plan better in the future. Vendor Issues I needed a hole dr...

If you’re the type of person (like me) who has lots of ideas and wants to create novel things, it’s easy to start “novelizing” everything.  For example, I created the new experience The Eureka Room. It’s an experience that is unlike anything else people have done (as far as I know). It's tempti...

Note: I'll be posting more about the Eureka Room move for the next few weeks, then it will be back to posts as usual. I'm doing this so that I can have a record of what I was thinking and feeling as I go through the process. Memory is a faulty recorder filled with bias. So rather than wait until the...

When we come up with a new idea, service, or product, it is tempting to think about "the market" as a singular large group instead of a collection of individuals. When we fall for that temptation it becomes easy to trick ourselves into believing, “well if we can just get 1% of them to buy this... (o...

The Eureka Room has just two more weekends left in the original location (my house). I'm excited to get it into a location where I can run it more often. Also I'm excited to get my living room back. Thought I'd document where I'm out for future reference. The lease starts June 1st, but we're aiming...

So that you can get a better idea of what I mean by this museum concept, I'm going to start off by painting a picture of a museum that is easier to understand: the 80's museum. The 80's Museum Buy a bunch of 80's stuff from ebay and put it in a room. Have multiple console TVs running 80’s commercial...