[TCML] Cabbotron...has returned!

[bartb]

Nice to hear from you "engineer" Sanders. So, an Engineering degree 
these days I assume? Good for you! Put it to work (during the day for a 
company, during the night for yourself). Are you thinking about getting 
back into coiling? More ball lightning experiments?

Take care,
Bart

Cabbot Sanders wrote:
> Dear Chip, Dr. Resonance, and all the fellow coilers (that I knew 
> between 1998-1999),
>
> Hello, it's me, Cabbot.  After selling most of my "tesla stuff" (15KV 
> .161ufd cap, Wysock 600 pps spark gap, 257 # of 10 AWG square wire, 
> and other supplies used to attempt to reproduce Corum's ball lightning 
> dual coil arrangement), I finished college and then worked for 2 years 
> on building a house in Hawaii.  In all these pursuits, I hadn't seen 
> my father in 3 years...meanwhile, he moved to none other than Colorado 
> Springs!  So I decided to come to to Colorado Springs to see him.
>
> That was last November...and I still haven't left.  In fact, I drove 
> over to 220 East Bijou Street (Tesla's old laboratory) just the other 
> day; and yes, it was true...his place was completely renovated and 
> rebuilt to be a state building that supports challenged teens--how 
> sad!  The other sad part was, no one there EVEN KNEW.  I walked right 
> in there in the middle of the center of the building there was this 
> large space where these two business-stereotypes were pointing at some 
> statistical figures on a white board on an easel. I did not hesitate 
> to openly announce: "Hi...So where's Tesla?"
>
> The expressions in the entire room dropped and there was this long 
> pause of silence; you could hear a pin drop!  But I continued; "Yea, 
> over 100 years ago this used to be Tesla's laboratory where he 
> developed technology much of which we still use today...although some 
> of it was repressed." After more jaw dropping and conversing with a 
> completely ignorant audience, I bid farewell as they had no clue even 
> who Tesla was. And this was his OLD LAB!!   next door to what appeared 
> to be a tavern--and the older guys there STILL REMEMBER when it was 
> Tesla's laboratory.  What a relief!  It was engaging to talk story 
> with them for hours in the cold afternoon.  Afterward, I walked behind 
> the lab/turned/counseling center, where there was an apartment 
> building, with rooms available.  $325 per month sounded like a great 
> deal to live that close to town, so I talked with the owner for a 
> while and then took off.  The coolest thing was the fact that even 
> after all of the State's rebuilding, you can still recognize his 
> laboratory as some of what it used to be: a large hangar!
> Cheers to all,
>
> Cabbot Sanders
> ball lightning/fusion researcher and engineer
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