The four day weekend is past. Normally, on a Monday after a long break, it's hard to go to work.
At least, that's what I remember. Working at home for as long as I did, every day was pretty much like any other.
Today, though, it was a pretty smooth ride in, emotionally speaking. I knew pretty much what fiddling I would have to do, and that helps. I like having a plan, having work to do.
I got in early (7:05 am) but couldn't really start DOING much until 7:45 -- that lockout from last week extended to all of my logins. Bastards. So I had to wait until I could get through to tech support to get it released.
I logged my hours and got caught up on this and that, so it was okay.
I've been working on the PMC item. After the rough form hardened, I did some cleanup on it. I found that I could scrape areas smooth and do some shaping with my favorite curved sculpting tool. I could burnish the clay to make it look silver, which was cool. I could lay new clay into rough spots from the syringe. I could use water to make a slip from the block of clay and paint it on with a moist brush to make it even smoother.
I hope to fire it this week sometime, this weekend at worst. It should be neat!
Then I'll do more work. I wonder what to make next?
The weekend was filled with food and games and quiet company. It was nice.
We went to Matt and Susan's Sunday to add priming sugar to a flat batch of cider. It turns out that, in all of our delays, it carbonated on the sly! Adding a 1/4 teaspoon of fine sugar to a carbonated beverage is a slick way of creating a fountain of foam.
Oh, and carbonated, this cherry cider is darned tasty. Mmmmm....
Posted by Edwin at November 29, 2004 08:18 AM