In the garden, and RAIN!!! (2) by SIGNYM

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In the garden, and RAIN!!! (2)

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Wednesday, February 12, 2025 12:59 PM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.

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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Man... Wish I could go into more detail about the project here....

A contact I made briefly last year had teased that they may have been in possession of something that has been a bit of a holy grail for the better part of 2 decades. They did mention that they were super busy for the holidays and it would take some time, and true to their word I didn't hear back from them again for about 5 or 6 weeks.

So I figured I would write them and ask how their holidays were and if there was any luck with it yet. No luck yet, and they were having family in town for the Superb Owl, but they would try to look harder for it this week.

So, me usually being the Expect Nothing and You Won't be Disappointed type, I never really took this seriously. They did seem genuine though, and that alone was enough for me to mention this possibility to a few other people over the last few months, but we all pretty much agreed that we'd be getting our hopes up over nothing and shouldn't think about it much...

I open up my email today....

I'll be damned. He has it.

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Wow!
Wish you could tell me more about your project, but I'm glad that he has it, whatever "it" is, and happier that whoever he is, he sounds reliable and willing to help.

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Wednesday, February 12, 2025 2:18 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK

It's nothing game-changing. It's more of a glorified missing puzzle piece than anything else. I've found quite a few of them along the way, which can tend to get real tricky when you expand internationally and you don't have any contacts in Asia. I've actually learned how to read some basic Japanese here on the side too.

Not really read it, but there are quite a few words that repeat often enough that I can recognize the characters of quite a few words. And once I started to figure out how to use translation tools and integrate that into my searches I found a few huge boxes of missing puzzle pieces to work on which have kept me busy for the last month or two.

But up until now, there were two pieces that should have been relatively simple to find, but just never surfaced in nearly 20 years. About a month or two ago, I found one of those pieces on accident in a google search, which lead me to a website in Spain. I remember when I first saw that how my jaw dropped. Out of the two, this should have been the MUCH harder puzzle piece to find. And there it was.

But this other one... Just couldn't find it anywhere. Even at a place that had found puzzle pieces we weren't missing that were extremely adjacent to it. It just wasn't there either.

But that got me in touch with the guy, and bingo-bango we've got it. He had it the whole time.

This piece was just huge because it completes a major core component of the project. Had it been located somewhere else in the project where lesser things are still missing, it wouldn't have really been exciting at all. But now I will be able to finally complete something that started back in 2008.

The scope of my project is far larger than the scope of that 2008 project was, but it's pretty awesome that once I package this up and release everything that they will finally have their own project finished off as well.

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