Attempt at catching up

 Rest of 2022 activities

• Trip to Mardid and FOSSA to finalise the build of 10 SAIN units. 
• Attended Highways conference in Birmingham with Richard to try and scope out what others were doing on bridge structural health monitoring. Not a lot as it tuns out.
• Lots of trips to the static in Wales!
• Trips to London to investigate collaboration with a drone provider on bridge monitoring Aeongreen. No money though so it was back to DIY again.
• Attendance at the Glasgow Pocketcube workshop. Always a great bash put on by Alba Orbital. Some investigation into collaboration with Scotish remote monitoring outfit Krucial. Didn't come to anything.
• The issue with SAIN was, and still is to some extent, it needs an injection of money to the tune of £100k to take it to a production level. We (I) have already put that amount in through the consulting business. Didn't really want to go for VC money, probably a mistake, but hey, ho, such is life.

Then 2023

• Trip to London to discus SAIN with Jacobs engineering, David Bradley. Again no go, no money.
• Trip to Budapest
• Lots of trips to the static in Wales
• Bought new motorhome - Bessy!
• Trip to Costa Rica - volcanoe's the lot!
• Big trip to Scotland in Bessy to visit the Rasaay distillery and sign our barrel.
• Advisory business closed down completely!
• Trip to Tenerife - holiday - first time back in a long while!

Then 2024

• Fantastic trip to India - holiday.
• Trip to Berlin - holiday
• Lots of trips to the static in Wales
• Tenerife - again - holiday with Richard to celebrate final ending of Advisory business.
• Big trip to Costa Rica and Panama - holiday
• Lots of Bessy trips, Wales, Durham...big 1 month trip round France to visit friends!
• Brilliant trip to Egypt - holiday

Phew.....as you can see the work aspects have started to take a back seat to the holidays. Long may it continue. I will summarise the SAIN position at some point just to state where things ended up.

Dropped the ball

 Well the last couple of years have seen a few changes that have resulted in me dropping the ball on Fortran revival activity. Mostly good stuff, lots and lots of travel - need to summarise all that at some point. Retirement has kicked in fully! 

However starting to get a little restless, need to come up with some new projects now that I have all this time on my hands - also needs to be summarised at some point.

Frogs of the Osa Peninsular

 

What fabulous place - primary rain forest, birds galore and plenty of frogs to record.

See https://www.researchgate.net/project/Costa-Rican-Observation-and-Analysis-of-Calls-CROAC

For the recordings!

More frogs at Greentique Wildlife Refuge, Manuel Antonio

Sat outside or hotel room, pre-breakfast, near the site entrance. Was visited by humming birds and others!

Night walk at the Greentique refuge - fantastic!

Call can be found here - https://www.researchgate.net/project/Costa-Rican-Observation-and-Analysis-of-Calls-CROAC

The frogs are calling at Macaw Lodge

But which ones.....

Check out the recordings at,

https://www.researchgate.net/project/Costa-Rican-Observation-and-Analysis-of-Calls-CROAC

Frogs is us!

Trip to Costa Rica to record a few frog calls for our CROAC product development. 

Installed at Macaw Lodge awaiting dusk and the frogs.

Start of semi-retirement

Well been a busy start since the 30 June end of consulting projects.

Managed to finish off the paper on the analysis of Galsbury bridge. Essentially to demonstrate that the SAIN unit can detect damage to a bridge arch. Just by listening to the sound of traffic passing over it.

Pretty cool or what! 

Check out the preprint - here - https://www.researchgate.net/publication/361670463_Sounding_road_bridges_for_changing_structural_integrity