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I’ve not blogged recently, so I’ll try to bring people up to date on what I’ve done since my last posts in January 2026.

I’ve not blogged about my acting lately, so I’ll try to bring people up to date on what I’ve done since my last posts in March and May 2025) For actual theater, I’ve been involved in several projects: I did the 9 performances of Fortinbras as Claudius.

I’m still catching up on my posts about my pottery.

My Halloween costume for 2025 was as Jack Frost.

For the Cabrillo College Fall play (Metamorphoses) I was asked to 3D-print the Corinthian capitals for the tops of two columns on the set.

I know that it is 2025 and I am in a Fall 2025 pottery class, but I never got around to blogging about the pots I made last year, so I figured I should catch up on those in a couple of posts before blogging about this Fall’s pots.

I wanted to try printing a new Shakespeare cookie cutter with my new 3D printer, to see if the better print quality would result in a better cutter.

My wife accidentally left a silicone basting brush too close to a burner on our gas stove and melted the ABS handle: ABS is a heat-tolerant plastic, but being close to the burner was too much for the handle.

My family and I went to Ashland, Oregon July 15–20 to see 7 plays in the Oregon Shakespeare Festival.

I’ve done yet more printing on my new 3D printer—a variant of the stand that I posted in More 3D prints on QIDI Plus4 and another mask The stand I printed this time was not for a roll of new plastic produce bags, but a new base for the old bag-dryer that…

I’ve done some more printing on my new 3D printer.

I’ve recently bought myself a new 3D printer: a QIDI Plus4.

As I promised in Acting Update: Fortinbras, this post is about building Claudius’s prayer bench (my work for TA 27 Theatre Production Workshop).

This post is yet another weight progress report, continuing the previous one, part of a long series since I started in January 2015.

I’d like to invite everyone to see Cabrillo’s Spring play Fortinbras at the Black Box theater inside Crocker Theater on Cabrillo’s Aptos campus.

I’ve not been blogging lately, for two reasons: I’ve been wasting a lot of time on Reddit (particularly on r/Theatre and r/acting), and I’ve been spending a lot of time on actual theater.

On Monday 2025 Jan 20, I had a rehearsal down in Soquel for NextStage Readers’ Theater (this will be my third year doing staged readings of short plays with them).

On 2025 Jan 15, I had another stress echocardiogram.

Today I recorded two monologues and added them to my playlist: https://tinyurl.com/Kevin-Karplus-monologues.

I tried Chatbot Arena (https://lmarena.ai/) with some simple electronics problems today.

This post is yet another weight progress report, continuing the previous one, part of a long series since I started in January 2015.

In Auditioning for 8 tens @8 I mentioned that I’d be auditioning for the short-play festival 8 tens @8.

I’ll be auditioning for the short-play festival 8 tens @8 this weekend.

Santa Cruz Shakespeare finishes their summer season tonight (they still have Glass Menagerie in the fall and Christmas Carol in December), so I’ll post my reviews now.

Because LeanPub has recently eased off on their $7.99 minimum price, I decided to lower the minimum price for the PDF of Applied Analog Electronics from $7.99 to $4.99.

My family (that is, my wife, our son, and I) went to Ashland to see Oregon Shakespeare Festival this week, for the third year in a row.

I missed a lot of my Spring pottery classes due to conflicts with acting that I had not anticipated when I signed up for the classes.

Well, it finally happened.

I’ve had “trigger finger” (the medical term is stenosing tenosynovitis) in the middle finger of my left hand for about a year.

As you may know from Colonoscopy prep 2024, I was scheduled for a colonoscopy today.

I am scheduled for a colonoscopy next week.

Continuing my updates from Acting update for May 2024, I’m now finished with Spring Semester at Cabrillo College.

This post is yet another weight progress report, continuing the previous one, part of a long series since I started in January 2015.

Continuing my updates from Acting update for January 2024, I’ll try to bring people up to date on what I’ve been doing in my new acting hobby.

I have been using an old M7803 Pro keyboard on my iMacs for quite some time—it has ©2000 on the label.

Long-time readers may remember that I had to fix my bike seat due to metal fatigue at the clamp that holds it back in 2016 (see Bike seat fixed, Broken bike seat and Flexible adhesives).

World Scientific Publishing is marketing my book.

Our second costume-design assignment was to design costumes for the 3 characters in Chekhov’s The Bear (МЕДВЕДЬ).

In Fantasy costume renderings, I showed my first assignment in costume design.

I’m in the “intermediate” class this semester—because the beginning class conflicts with my theater-tech class at Cabrillo.