Hey, I passed the test yesterday. Really, the tests seem to be more a formality than anything -- if you have studied, at least.
I'm to be competing at the Tai Chi Legacy in Dallas at the end of July/early August... I thought for some reason that it was mid or end-august, not July! I have a schedule conflict... Nikolas gets shipped back home on August 1st.
I haven't started editing yet on the book -- I fear going back to its depths. But I must. It calls to me, a haunting cry across the moor... "Eeeeddwiiiiinn..... edit meeeeeee....".
I used some body-safe silicon to make a hand mold of Marla on Wednesday (was it Wednesday? It must have been). Neat stuff! Gets hard in 90 seconds... yow! You don't mix this stuff by hand, but pump it through a static mixing tube and it mixes like magic.
The mold is too thin for my taste; we used about 60% of the tube and should have used all of it. But the plaster support mold worked well.
I'm going to make a rubber hand, using the final material in my sample pack, to see how that works and feels. Then I can make a solid plaster negative off of that, which I can *then* use to cast the silicon version with bones in it.
I could do the silicon directly on this, I think, if I used a lot of mold release. But the silicon hand negative has walls too thin to keep their shape if split open, so I can't do the two-part casting needed to get the bones in place.
I'm really liking these new materials, the rubbers and silicons, by the way.