The Chris and Theresa Givans

Since our last post, we've:

1. Moved houses
2. Stayed in our current jobs (Chris at the library, Theresa at the Cosmosphere)
3. Built and baked some things

1: We moved into what was Kate and Tyson's house on west 13th avenue since the mortgage and utilities were less than our rent in the apartment. Thanks to the parents' help we moved pretty easily and then Theresa's parents helped us repaint to match our aesthetics. Father did drop a washing machine down a set of stairs and onto me. But I turned out fine.

Excuse the lighting.

2: I think there was a job opportunity I was feeling hopeful about in our last post, but each one of those has turned into nothing so I know whatever one it was, it came to nothing. Next up is one application to the Tulsa Air and Space Museum, where Theresa and I previously met the hiring supervisor in a professional capacity; one interview at Liberal's Mid-America Air Museum because they responded favorably to my unsolicited inquiry; and volunteering at the Combat Air Museum because they appreciated a proposal we had sent them previously but could not afford us so we'll use it to improve our portfolios/resumes.

The fancy inquiries I'm sending out, because that's what I've come to.

3: Theresa's been doing lots of baking for Kate's bachelorette parties and wedding (120 cupcakes + 4 cakes!). I built a pirate ship for the library, which disguised a donation bin. It also needs a home now so if anyone is dying to own it, I'll gladly pass it along. I'm now building a cutaway of the nose of a B-24 Liberator in the basement in preparation for the interview at Liberal since they were a base during WWII—I'm using it as a demonstration of my skills, an experiment in rapid prototyping for museum content, and because the ability to cheaply build a Liberator may appeal to the museum since they don't have one of their own.

The stand is actually made of palettes from our reception. Using them also meant there's less to carry out of our basement :P

Construction of the pirate ship

Completed ship + sails

An old cutaway + 3D model of my current project

Theresa and I also went out to Denver for her father's birthday (on Oct 28th) and we saw the total solar eclipse back in August! Here's two difficult to understand pictures of that:

The eclipse at totality, poorly captured.

Instead of staring at the sun through our glasses the whole time we also had a mirror, shielded by an envelope, projecting the eclipse-in-progress on the side of the house we were visiting.