Entering my Second Childhood

HI Z Scalers!

I'm now 47 going on 11 years old and I have decided to pursue my second childhood with the help of all the techie goodness that I have picked up along the way from hobbying, college, and career. I am "retired", well actually on disability for heart and mental health issues (both controlled by meds and light exercise and eating right), so I have lots of time especially burning the late night oil to play with train ideas. No work and all play makes Les a fun boy!

I have some cool ideas for Z scale and even other scale trains plus experience in software and hardware, analog and digital, design and test, all from industries like military avionics, telecom, biomedical and chip/circuit board development, plus I have gotten into 3D printing in a big way. So hopefully somewhere along the way I can help with techno stuff.

I will go run off and post my current ideas in appropriate places on this forum, just please do reply as i live for the attention, lol...

Les

Welcome to Z scale and welcome to the page. Always room in Z for new ideas. Especially if the bigger scales have not thought of them first.

Good thing you didn't wait until you were 60 like I did. Bi-focal glasses don't really help when it comes to counting rivets in Z.

It's even more fun trying to put them in a 3D drawing. They all disappear because there to small.

As to eyesight, I'm strangely lucky in that I'm very very nearsighted (20/400 vision I was told). The reason that is good is that when I take my glasses off and hold an object about three to six inches from my eyes, i see like super well. And further lucky is that my hands are fairly steady even after quitting a 30 year span of alcoholism . You'd think my hands would be shaky and they certainly aren't quite as steady as they used to be, but yeah I guess I can't complain. Now that I've quit drinking completely it's like a whole, fresh, new world opening up before me and models of some sort will be part of it. Trains? sure why not, love 'em!!!

Les