I am OK, now

do not get bit

sharp snap of the wrist
the serpent wraps up my arm
as I shoot snake eyes

from the library but still here

For both of my readers I am still here, there and elsewhere but not where I should be and that would be at my micro studio. I made several small ribbon type corkscrew marbles last... ER uh well a couple Saturdays ago. Not sure why, There are projects that need doing before the end of the year! There is the no ebay/paypal problem and this problem, self inflicted though it is, leaves me with few options to keep going. I have a 'free' web-store that looks quite good, I have not used it yet, the restrictions on the free store are somewhat limiting. I do plan to start using the store ASAP thus with some luck start clearing up some of my problems despite my shifting moods. I am good for the next three months on my clandestine drug, that's good!
What to make and where to sell it? My current idea is to continue to make the boxed sets and five or so of my complex marbles per week. Some of the complex marbles will go into the store to satisfy PayPal if they sell; one of the restrictions of the free store is that I have to use PayPal fore customer payments. I can upgrade the store for I think, $15.00 a month I would then be able to have a lot more items listed and payment options. I do not have credit cards thus the only option to upgrade the store is PayPal...
I do have other possible sales avenues, however most are way down on the list of actual sales one has compared to eBay. Most have better packages but I still need a way to pay the fee!

raining on the light... at tunnels end

The first day in the new SPOT and what is the weather doing, continuous rain and thunder storms. Good thing I am not at a low ebb or this would have gotten me way down. The rain is supposed to let up around noon and as soon as possible I will make the hike to the micro studio and get started.
Images;
nothing like a gurney to get you to the light and it was very handy getting all my crap down the hallways to the back door.

The now empty old shop.

Mike, needs to find the umbrella, E

getting it done

My new studio is ready to use, that is if you can call a cleared spot among a bunch of machines, tools and other items too numerous to mention a studio. Saturday morning I will get three blocks of walking exercise when heading over to my new space. Unlock the door, fire up the huge kiln and get some glass sorted so I can try to remember how all this melting glass into something really works.

Stairway to...

or maybe it depends on the direction you are heading...
Mike, who is that shade, E

Backtracking a little

Since the Amana marble show in early June I used up one tank of oxygen making three sets of marbles, two 6 count sets and a 12 count set that was already paid for and that one still needs to get in the mail along with a few other marbles. Then I did not get anything done for a few days until I finally bought more oxygen... then came the eviction... I took back the nearly full oxy tank and started sorting and moving. A couple weeks earlier I was supposed to come up with 0ne hundred and fifty bucks for back child support, I owe a little under 1000 bucks yet, however I did not have it and found myself in contempt of court with less than two weeks to get the money. I finally came up with enough money by selling two sets that I hoped to send elsewhere. I have until December to do it again.
I should be in full swing in the new location by Friday with some work coming out of the kiln Saturday. Now all I have to do is finish some unfinished business and hope to have that cleared up by the end of the year.
Bye,
Mike, it is a really pretty rope, E

a tail of a squirrel

soon to be a major motion picture

Story Board The squirrel is being stalked...

The now alert squirrel...

Hum... fight or flight...

Flight...
...The end.
credits
writer - MikeE
director - MikeE
images by MikeE

cooperating actor _ squirrel
@MMIX

R or W a now and then Haiku

Trick of a good life.
Death a minor distraction.
Wast none of the time.

panarama photography

From my teens on I have had a bend for photography particularly available light in black and white and panoramas, mostly I shot AV light because panoramas were too hard to do and I did not have the type of camera that it took to make the job easier.

A couple years ago I was using Adobe Photoshop 6 and its panorama feature… it was a disappointment in that I was getting streaks across the image where the image was stitched together. Then I was able to use Adobe Photoshop Elements as a 30 day trial and the stitching program was great… the price, at an income of $3500.00 a year… Since then I have been looking for a freeware program that would work well but no, until the other day when I was at the churches ‘computer lab’ looking for freeware when I ran across this at Gizmo’s freeware site;

http://www.techsupportalert.com/best-free-digital-image-stitcher.htm

There is a Ice forum here;

http://community.research.microsoft.com/forums/112.aspx

The following are quick examples with the vertical pan of the old Independence library being ‘artistry’ doctored in Adobe Photoshop.

Camera; Fujifilm FinePic S700

Mike,off to move some tools and glass to the new digs, E

vintage kids clothes

I do not know who wore these kids clothes however they were clothes that were among my grandmother, Charlotte Sparks Cocking's belongings.

dreams

There are a lot of details from my childhood that are sketchy except that I do remember a few dreams. In my 20s/30s I started the practice of trying to remember dreams. A time finally came when the dreams started interfering with my actual reality. The dream thoughts were merging with my memory of what I think is my real world reality. I recorded the following dream as soon as I could because it stepped outside the line  of my typical dreams.

Dream Start: I Find Myself In A Rectangular Room With Depressed Looking People Holding Up Variously Sized Tin Cans That They Us To Catch Dripping Ooze Coming Down From Some Where Above, The Stuff Covered Every Surface, I Was Encouraged To Take Up My Can For The Sake Of Sustenance... There Was A Double Window At The Far End Of The Room Looking Into Blackness, However When I Looked Through The Window There Was An Odd Person On His Knees In The Middle Of An Equally Odd Street. This Man Was Pushing/Shooting A Bottle Cap Down The Street At An Object But The Real Fright Was The Constant Noise Of Thunder And Swirling Balls Of Lightning Swirling And Bouncing Around The Street Scene Along with Black Boiling Clouds. I Recede Back Into The Room Of Slime Contemplating My Situation. Somehow I felt That The Windows Were Impenetrable, While I Still Had Some Self Will I Decided To Charge The Window, It Seemed To Me That I Had A Choice Of The Gloom Of The Room Of Sustenance Or The Exciting Danger Beyond The Window... I Charged... The Wall Gently Swung Open Like A Door... There I Was Standing There With The Kneeling Man Playing With His Bottle Cap... Among The Continuous Storm Where People Wandered The Street In Very Strange Costumes... While I Peeled Thick Gobs Of Goo Off My Person I Asked Where I Could Stay And Shower And All I Got Was An Invitation To Join The, I Guess, The Fun... Past The Kneeling Man There Was A Woman Standing At a Street Stand Selling, Something and at This Tee Intersection There Was A Troop Of Entertainers In Front Of The Stand, Entertainers With No Spectators... Dream ends.

  Bye,

   Mike

evicted

I was evicted from my 'studio' almost three weeks ago. The shop was full of stuff that I have been sorting, moving, and throwing away. I have found a garage that I can work in. I am in the process of re-arranging the garage so I have enough room to work Should be setup buy the end of next week.

All in all it is good; no more homeless guy living there running up the electric bill watching TV 24/7.

just a test

hummm