What went before ONE: So. Just wasted an hour inputting 20 infringed works into an online form only to have the dreaded “Something went wrong!” appear at the end of it all.
I could have done something useful with that hour.
Wrote to the administrator.
Eschewing strong drink at this time.
What went before TWO: Eek. I really may have bitten off more than I can chew this time. Stained glass is going to be intense.
There’s … eight of us, I guess. At least two are returning students. Some have worked with stained glass before. I of course am a Compleat Newbie. I did appreciate our instructor reminding us several times that the project we’ll be working on was going to be Our First, and that glass … breaks.
I managed to cut out a rectangle and a triangle, but a circle still eludes me. I do know that the secret is that glass breaks in straight lines, but I think I’m going to have to find a youtube howto, because I Just Ain’t Gettin’ It, and my pattern of course has a lot of curved lines.
There will also be Homework, which means I’ll be working in the back basement room, to keep cats out of glass, and glass dust out of the house.
Well. Onward. Next week — shopping! at Glass Express in Manchester. Which means I should spend some time planning out the colors in my project.
But all that? Is for later.
For right now, I need to read a chapter of A Night in the Lonesome October, and find something to eat.
Everybody have a good evening. Stay safe. I’ll see you tomorrow.
Friday. Cool and not getting too much warmer. Sun coming up, but behind the trees, so I can’t verify the “big bald head” aspect of the event.
Breakfast was blueberry skyr. Drinking my first cup of tea. Haven’t the faintest about lunch, though I did defrost a pork chop, so there is that.
Sarah’s due in half an hour, more or less, whereupon I will join the cats in a genteel retreat to Steve’s office, where I hope to work, and they will perhaps nap.
After Sarah has finished, I have Errands, which include a trip to the post office, the pet store (the cats have finally hidden all the springs), SBS (to get my glass pattern enlarged) and the grocery. Lunch may be added to the list. I’m told there’s a creperie in town, now. Who knew?
I went to Informed Delivery to check my incoming mail, and the site is … not behaving. It occurs to me that the goobers shut down the goobermint, and unfortunately the government, what was left of it, too — and thus, there may be no mail. And certainly no one looking out for the website.
Interesting times.
What’s on for Friday at your place?
Today’s blog post title from Ms Laurie Anderson, “Sharkey’s Day“, yes, again. It was a formative song.
