Fruits Of My Labor (A-113)

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Hey Tony,
Taking off from Jerry's byline, which sounds very Edisonian to me, and spot on: maybe adding a paraphrase from Edison, The Man and His Work by George S Bryan 1926 on his electric light improvement:

"The electric light has caused me the greatest amount of study and has required the most ELABORATE EXPERIMENTS
....Altho I was never myself discouraged or hopeless about its success, I cannot say that of my associates....
Through all the years of experimenting with it, I never once made an associated discovery. It was deductive...
The results I achieved were the consequence of invention - pure and simple.

"I would CONSTRUCT and work along various lines until I found them untenable.
When one theory was DISCARDED, I developed another at once.

"I realized very early that this was the only possible way for me to work out all the problems."


Perhaps a little long, this - but it describes a process of handling disappointment. Or, obviously, of not getting into that, not giving it any weight, just a step in the process.
It's the process that's important, that's where the breath and the brain is.

So if you glued it in, you can take it out, it's only SNOT as Herreshoff called it.

You have the boat, you have unique ideas, you like the PROCESS, working in the shop,
otherwise you'd be selling mortgage insurance.

Edison also is quoted as saying he liked his phonograph invention best.
Rest assured, there will be music and dancing when launching day arrives!