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August 09, 2003
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the sound you hear in the background is me...melting in the heat. Yes, it was 109 in my neighborhood yesterday, according to my Weatherbug. My trees are suffering from heat stress. I checked the temp at 11:00pm last night, and it was still 91 outside. Hot enough for ya? (hint: don't think of moving to Central Texas unless you are part lizard).
I tried a new technique (new for me) yesterday and must say that I'm pleased with the intial result. I had made a bead a couple of days ago, that turned out pretty nicely except for the little divits on the surface that happened when the bead touched another hot bead in the kiln. Because it is an encased bead, you really notice the divit. So, instead of just tossing it in my 'bad bead' jar (which is way too full), I ramped it up in the kiln and after letting it sit and get nice and hot all the way thru, I reintroduced it into the flame and polished out the divit. Took it out of the kiln this morning and it voila, all better. I anticipated the bead 'sploding all over me (even had my leather apron on my lap waiting for the hot glass shards) but everything turned out fine.
Dell field support is coming out to the house today to fix my laptop keyboard. When Brian (who works at Dell) called in to report the problem, the tech he spoke to asked if he was familiar with how to type on a laptop - ??? Is there some kind of secret to typing on a laptop? When I was trying to update this site the other day, while I was typing the cursor started jumping all over the screen and actually deleted this entire table in a split second. What's the secret to making that happen, cause believe me, I certainly wasn't trying to make that happen!
Posted by Donner at August 9, 2003 11:39 AM