Down Payments or No Java, No Spell Check

It is two am, and i am on a semi planned over night stint at the gallery. I have enough pomegranet/pear/apple/blue berry juice (from concentrate) to last me well into the morning, as well as a half a packet of fudge, and several packets of instant mocha. I went to the store with the intent of buying some thing 'bad' to distract myself from work when it got to much, but had to stop myself from walking away with nutragrain bars. I arrived with the intent of working here for a while, then realized it was time for the last bus before it was time to stop playing with fire. I have to stop making marbles.

i just broke something pretty due to thermal shock (lack of experiance) so i decided to take a rest for a few moments to say hello. I have not been doing anything simple and easy in weeks, and as a result I have not compleat anything. it all keeps fucking up right at the end. Sometimes duing the very last step. lessons in zen. so i made a few colourful spoons to remind myself that i can indeed make something. I think I will stick with simple things for the next few hours.

I need more tools. Like a puffer, and an octaganal reemer. I am running low on my colour, and starting to bite into the samples, which sucks cuse i only have tiny bits of each sample, so any one colour will apper no more than twice. If i stretch it. Some of the colours need special treatment, like being heated, cooled, and then heated before they turn into a colour, and will most times look hazey grey until it is done, so you never really know what you are dealing with. Or it might be made with a special metal, and needs to be coated in clear or it will just boil and turn burnt (i did just find a pretty cool way to coat it tho.) Some need to be preheated. Some cannot be covered to thickly, or they will break out while in the kiln. It is colour!

I got my business cards monday, and they look pretty sweet. I wrote it all out with a marker, then got the lady to scan it and put it right on to the cards, so it looks i hand wrote each one of them. Trying to push the 'amature' look. The plan as it stands give them out hand by hand during the holy day, while every one is at the ledg. Should be like shooting a french man in the bushes. So long as it does not rain.

Work has been slow and crappy. I did just get a three dollar raise, but it would be really nice if i started getting fifty orders a week for twenty dollar spoons and could quit my job. I would not even need fifty. Most blowers who do orders for distributors are moving at least $10,000 at a time... which is any where from two to five hundred pipes. What do you want to do with your life? Blowing glass still sounds fun. It is just starting to sound like a lot of work. Because up to now has been a cake walk...

My torch is not big enough for some of the things i have been trying, which is sad. Because it is big, and the next step up costs twice as much as this one, and would use way the hell more gas. It was too hot, or it was too cold, but heat control is the most important part of this oppeation. It stuck, it will not stick, it slumped, it cracked, it is all an issue of heat control.

Well enough talk, more spinning.

Uehen