Book from Venita. Souvenir of Canada 2 by Douglas Coupland. Whoo! (how did I guess?)

Claus offered to show me how to solder a small kit project together.

Not half as destructive an exercise as I'd feared it'd be for clumsy old (now 22) me. Top of PCB and a bunch of things...

Bottom.

I did the resistor in the middle. :)

A fuzzyShot(tm) is taken as things get more interesting. Still no major disasters.

Doughnut!! (fixed later)

Oh yes, this is supposed to be a VU (sound level) meter. Now it's all done, no disasters along the way. Thank you, Claus. :)

Top of finished board. Claus was not only patient enough to teach me along the way, but...

... we tried three different power supplies (SPARCstation LX PSU seen here) to make it work, but no joy.

"What do you think you're doing..."

Hoegaarden!