Check it out! Look what came in the mail today!
SIX POUNDS OF MARBLES!!!!! WOHOOOOO!
It is hard to contain my joy. The sad part? These aren’t for the current sculpture…they’re for the next one! That’s right, I’ve not even more than started the first, and I’m already planning the second. It’s either sad, or frenetic ambition. Should be a friggin’ outstanding visual display with all those colors, though, eh?
Oh, there was one kind of lame thing. These:
I ordered one-inch marbles, and these, my friends, are not one inch in diameter. They were obviously smaller, so I measured them: three quarters of an inch. A travesty! They sell ’em in bulk, and it’s expected that some may be damaged or chipped or whatever, but why I got over 20 marbles of the wrong size is beyond me. I’ll have to investigate and see if I can’t get some replacements. If it were one or two, no biggie, but it’s kind of a lot.
In other news, a pic of suckiness. One day a child (perhaps one of mine should the planets ever align) will look at me and say, “Hey, did you ever stink at soldering?” And I’ll say, “Here, look at this picture.”
That little half-ring of copper was supposed to be soldered to those two rails. After two hours I had blobs of hardened solder on the work surface, and then, as if to add insult to injury, the half ring fell off the rails of its own volition.
Yes, this part sucks, but I have friends on the interwebz, and they are helping me figure out what the shnizzle is going on here. It’s believed I need more flame, and some better clamps (no more bolts and washers). Now I shall take my leave. There is awesomeness to be created.
Looks like you’re really working on this! Got some motivation I can borrow?
Keep working on it, now matter what the “it” is. Even if it seems like it’s not going anywhere, or that you’re “not really getting much done,” just keep doing the work. The results will take care of themselves.
That’s the best I got. I have to take a lot of this stuff on faith that it will work out, and lots of times I’m doing it even when I’m not feeling it. Looks good, though, doesn’t it?!
When you got the marbles in the mail did you just want to run outside and challenge some kids to a game? Or you could take this opportunity to throw the marbles into casual conversation. When somebody says something untrue you can say, “I’ll bet you six pounds of marbles that you’re wrong. And I’ve the the goods to back it up.”
Keep at it, dude, and there will be more soldering and less suckage. Um, or something. Damn it, man, you know what I mean!
When I got them I stood there at the mailbox and went, “YES! WOOHOO!” kind of loud. If my neighbors had been watching, they might have been a little curious.
What I wanted to do, and what I did, was I called my friend/coworker and said, “Dude! Guess what I’ve got in front of me?! Six pounds of marbles!”
What I wanted to do immediately after that was take a picture of them, so I did.