Yay! School!

Yay! 8:00 AM physics lab... err... yay?

I may be trying to squeeze that somewhere else in my schedule, as I originally moved it there since I was originally going to be on campus everyday at 8:00... but now it's my only 8:00am commitment. All my other classes start at either 10 or 11.

But I think I also moved it there because the other labs all conflicted with other classes I wanted to take. If I end up being Metalsmithing Lab Monitor on that day it could end up being a really really long day. 8 AM to 11 PM.

A case of the *Blearghs*

So 3 out of the 5 people in the house either have the flu or food poisoning.

I'm one of them.

My morning has not been the most unpleasant ever, but between weakness, nausea, and the emergency dashes to the bathroom I'm not a happy rabbit.

Going back to drinking my saltines and drinking my ginger ale thank you very much.

*Edit*

Who in the name of GOD thought that cherry flavored Pepto Bismal was a good idea. I mean... generally you are already queasy and now you have to drink sickeningly sweet artificial maraschino cherry mixed with Peopto?

I actually felt worse after taking it.

Oh and my toilot is REALLY clean. Because... you know I was sitting there for so long waiting for things to happen and stop happening... and the box of lysol wipes were right there...

Ring a ding ding

I finally got the camera and the ring I made back in October in the same place at the same time.


Ring shank is cast bronze, cogs are brass and the stone is a Tsavorite Garnet.

Carmel popcorn and Cold snow.

It has been a while since my last update and I thought as the semester winds to a close I might reassure people that I was still alive and in control of all my limbs.

First, followup on the stair tumble nothing broken, nothing strained but I did have amazing set of bruises the size for grapefruit and rugburn down the entire length of my right side. It slowed me down for a couple of weeks but no permamant damage.

Classes went well with the exception of my final assignment in metal-smithing which has proven to be an unmitigated disaster.

We are doing organic/plastic burnout casting and whet doing a burnout each sprue of things to be cast is placed in metal collar (to protect the investment plaster) this is called a flask. For this last assignment I generated 13 flasks and sprued up over 50 things to be burned out. 2 of them turned out, none of which were my primary pieces. I needed at least 6 of my secondary pieces to burn out to follow back-up back-up plan.
Thursday we did one last hail-mary burnout where I sprued up an additional 30 pieces. The end result: I now have a grand total of 4 pieces that cast successfully, 6 or so that were partial casts and 20 that well... they cast... sorta.
So I have until Tuesday noon to take what I have and turn it into something.

Wetherwise it's been mildly ambivilent here with most of the fall/winter been in the mid 40's. We got on brief spit of snow after thanksgiving but that soon melted. So it's been mild and not to stressfull.

Until friday night. Daytime temps on Frrday were in the high 30's, but by night fall that had dropped to -8 and there was a solid curtain of snow. It coninued that way all day Saturday and today, though it appears the snowfall has slacked off. At this time there is maybe 8 inches of snow on the lawn and it is currently mostly clear and -10 degrees.

There was more that was uspposed to go here but it looks like that early onset alzheimers is kicking in again or perhaps a profound lack of coffee this morning. Got any quetions about what going on? Post em in the comments and I'll try to answer them.

Steampunk Jewelry

Here's a quick picture taken by my prof of my most recently finished pieces. I'll try and get picture of the ring soonish.

Ow... ow... ow...

So I just fell/slid down the carpeted stairs from the main house to the gym.

Good news... I didn't hit my head
Bad news... I hit my hip shoulder blade and right wrist really hard.


I'm off to find some epsom salt I think...


*Update*

There WAS epsom salt. Unfortunatly it was Lavender and Chamomile empsom selt...


So...

I smell pretty... oh so pretty...and witty and in FRIKIN pain.

Okay the pain actually is must better post bath in all honesty.

I think I'm turnning fuzzy, I think I'm turning fuzzy, I really think so....

So the girl and I were trying to decide what to do with the evening and she paused in thought and firmly declared " Rock band. However, given how badly we did last time* we need Josie and her friends." She then ran upstairs.

I was confused, that confusion soon passed.



Does the fact I really like the outfit mean I'm turning into a furry?

Bonus: The reason why the screen looks big... is because we're using a projector to project it on the wall of the gym. Rockband on 30' wide screen is niiice...


*We didn't do badly, I did. Something was wrong with me and I got motion sick while trying to play the drums, and it persisted through switching back to the guitar, I actually had to drop out of the band and go to another room.

Kenpo and metal

Passed the Kenpo test, hurt my ankle and wrist sparring. Not bad, the ankle basically feels like it needs to be "popped." The wrist is a little swollen from my upward blocking a front kick and hitting Sensai's heel pretty hard.

I need Epsom salt. ( A quick google to make sure I spelled it right revealed a variety of other uses besides sore muscles I was not aware of. Some pretty cool. Some pretty scary.)

My casting last week went well (still no pictures) and I am doing a second round of casting this Thursday. This of course means I need to spend tomorrow (nominally my day off) in the lab doing finish work on my waxes and investing for Thursday's burnout.

Now I am falling asleep and am going to bed.

Minor update with flaming metal...

I wish I had thought to bring my camera to class as were are about to cast a mess of stuff.

For the record, I am severely sleep deprived and about to pour 200+ grams of molten broze... but no worries...

err...

really.

I pretty certain one of my classmates will have camera I'll get him to take some pictures.

*Edit* Oh and I did not pass my Kenpo test tuesday. But it was by s lim margin. Basically I hit the same 5 techniques (out of 40) that I always get jumbled in my head... and they got jumbled.

No worries I'll pass next tuesday.

Frikin cold!

So, yesterday I was complaining that it was only the 3 or 4th birthday I could remember snow free.

Mind you, I said this while sitting outside in 45 degree weather with a 5mph gusts on an otherwise clear day.

Today...it is now snowing, 29 degrees , with 15mph winds gusting up to 30mph.

I forgot my hat. (But remembered my gloves.)

I even got a relatively close parking spot to campus but walking through the campus core with the wind gusting between buildings was not a lot of fun.

Other News: Tonight C and I are having a combined (mine yesterday, hers today) Rock Band Birthday party. I'm excited.