You will certainly find some unique experiences from hacklabs/hackerspaces. Also, please do not hesitate to ask about residencies or other short-term accomodation possibilities. It might not be the luxury resort, more likely a sofa, kitchenette and shower next to the actual lab.
In the 90's there was a vector graphics editor called Satori. It was something beyond the understanding of us neighbourhood kids. Something beyond the Paint (and Paintshop Pro). Now let's get back from the nostalgia trip...
Illustrations were created using a vector graphics engine, and then rendered as a bitmap. The brushes looked 'painterly', but they were editable and scalable. So it was possible to take a postage-stamp sized picture and scale it up to billboard size without any loss of resolution.
Watercolor paintings that were actually vectors? Yes, that's exactly what it offered!
There was also some architectural trickery that enabled huge pictures to be loaded into the application on machines with limited RAM.
These inspired also us to open a hackerspace (or hacklab as we call them here). It has been interesting to see patterns happens in real life. Especially the Sine Wave pattern comes and goes by the time.
No matter how fast you'll use those rubbers, it's also good for hygienic reasons. Would be very annoying to get UTI or such when there is a new humanbeing to be taken care of.
It was great to hear him being 8/10 and soon up to 9/10. So comforting and removing all that unnecessary fear. Days and hours right before that moment were so exhausting that simple number was easy to process.
As a person with diagnosed fibromyalgia this is sadly a quite common thought for me, too. Fibromyalgia is usually invisible for other people. On outside it looks the person is tired or grumpy or in some kind of brainfog. It just sucks a lot of energy during the flareups. On good days, I'm okay with it, we are on same ride until there are better treatments available.
