T minus 6

That's how many weeks I have until the show people. This week I need to start strategizing. This is the part I like least, and almost always wind-up rebelling against. I even hate it when I tell myself what to do. I'm thinking in this economy I should concentrate on low budget stuff. I've got an idea for kind of dogtaggy necklaces with messages stamped into them. I'm tempted to conduct a little experiment and have a bunch that say, "O FDL STX" and some that say, "EFF EFF EFF" and see which ones sell better. I suspect people secretly like to be bad and sweary when they can get away with it, but I could be projecting. My fav saying so far is "PWN IT BB".

As you can see Ray is still trying to poison my ass with cutosterone. Here he is pretending to be a bolster pillow. Look at his curled-up little feets-- or wait-- don't! I'm not sure if he can transmit through the internet at you. Better safe than sorry.

This horrible blurry shot is of a couple of holes I burned in my finger yesterday, and Annie pointedly ignoring me. "Let me know when you're ready to pet me, or feed me. Le sigh."

I played a lot of White Stripes and Black Keys yesterday to dispell the suck of last week. Whew-- iPod = still awesome. I run on tune power. it probably tires me out more because I have to occasionally rock out and that uses up energy, but, it needs to be done. After listening some more, I do actually like some of Dan Auerbach's new album. I just had really high expectations and was looking forward to super dirty guitars and more oomph-- yelly stuff.

I almost made my goal of finishing the birch commission. Painted rusty steel is my favorite kind to work with but the absolute WORST to weld. So this one is taking forever because there's a million tiny tack welds all over it and it's too heavy to get onto the SuckWOW (bench). It's about 4' in diameter, so most of the welds yesterday involved a squat of some kind. Good workout anyway.

These people really like Asian art and that aesthetic-- lots of negative space and a weird asymmetrical balance. My version is surely some bastardized hybrid, but they seem to like it. Today I'll put on the finishing touches and open up the edges of the design more. Pics tomorrow.

As far as other stuff-- was exhausted after work yesterday but Trusty Pam dragged me out for an hour + 20 ski that woke me back up. (I told her when we met if she hung with me I'd turn her into an outside girl. I created a monster yo.) Then last night I got on a revision roll (another 35k down) and got sucked back into "Uglies" (cool book btw if you like kind of sci -fi stuff) and was up until, like, 3:30. Yikes.

Today after I finish waking up I'll weld up that commish, then run a little, then, yep-- more revision.

So-- would you be an "O FDL STX" person or an "EFF EFF EFF" person??? I'm kind of both. Maybe I should sell ball-chains separate so people can mix them together...