Not good. I'm on pain killers every 4 hours, and bed rest. If this doesn't work, it's going to be surgery. I'm opting for rest at the moment, I've too much to do.
I don't know how I broke it, on Monday it just got worse and worse through the day, and by Tuesday it was swollen and barely moveable. It improved all the way until Friday, when, in bending my knee gently, there was a loud pop and sudden agony. Ah. So it's back to bed rest.
At least no bones broken, just tendons. So it's going to heal but probably slowly.
Eh. I've done it before, the doc says it will eventually require surgery if I'm not more careful. I'm really hoping this is not the the time it does.
This is what happens down the line when you aren't careful playing on the exercise weight machines. I blew out both knees at once at the YMCA when I was in my 30s, working out on one of their machines.
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I would say that music counts, that was pretty good. What is the instrument/setting/term for that makes the rubber-band guitar sound?
What I fret over is my lack of doing things that should be done for this contest! I need the office floor done, the baseboards installed, a door hung, the shelves installed. Now those are things I really want to make for this contest!
I made a photo shoot this weekend! Here's a teaser as I still have a TON of post processing to do on the image. Don't worry, though. I'm photoshopping this image instead of doing my homework.
I would say that music counts, that was pretty good. What is the instrument/setting/term for that makes the rubber-band guitar sound?
There's probably lots of ways to do it, but Schism Tracker/Impulse Tracker have a built-in resonant filter, which I use to alter the timbre of sampled instruments. The sampled instrument itself is cryptically named "depe4_c2", so I know not where it's from ultimately, but I found it among the stuff in the Maz No. 1 instruments CD.
I made an external hard drive out of my gf's former laptop drive. Took all of about 3 mins.
I'm in the precess of making a simple shelf to go behind the new couch. Just a 1x6 stained and bracketed to the wall. Put on the first coat this evening.
I didn't make this, but I'm working on repairing it. lisarea sent it to me some time back but it got mauled by the USPS and arrived in fragments. It's been pieced together like a 3D jigsaw puzzle, but the pieces don't exactly fit. This is probably due to operator error and maybe a bit of disintegration of the material during the fracture. Anyhow, the mends will need a bit of putty and then the plane will get a new paint job.
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I made a sort of a collapsible/portable photo softbox thingie. I was hoping to be able to put glass and other shiny objects inside to get even light (using ordinary lighting) and keep reflections down while photographing them. I plan to make them in various sizes and am trying to think of a way to make a big but portable one for getting shots of large pieces in situ.
I did not take a picture of the box, but here are a few objects that I used for practice. Not entirely satisfied with the results, but they are better than without the box.
Is that fish on that blue cup with the tentacle handle? Or just fortuitous raku?
Those are fish, very finely painted all around the cup. There is also a fish head painted on top of the handle. This cup is no larger than 3.5 inches across and 2.25" tall. It was a thrift store find. I can barely read the signature on the bottom, but it looks like one of those fish incised in the clay with a needle.
I have no idea if it was locally made or not. I love it, it's one of my favorite pieces of pottery.
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