making a wire shank for a lampworked PW button a short video

computer, not today, Michelle on faceboook, how bad is my paranoia anyway?...

I set up a facebook account for Michelle; for starters she is C illiterate! When someone jerks the mouse at the same time as they click on what they want, well what can I say. Got to love her, she is trying.
   I have been stalling getting back to the non studio. Today was to be the first 'but' Michelle wanted me to stick around because she wanted me to run a couple important errands today.
   Been doing the invite thing on facebook, may as well, I don't post much.
   ... I DON'T KNow.

a haiku

the path forward done
retracing steps, lots of fun
good day to be home

hitting the mean streets

Well, not yet but I got it going on!

Dark places

night
Dark room
full moon
drawn blinds
walls
hidden spaces
dark places
feared spaces
room
cold bed
a comforter
sleeping
pretense
wall
dark
tunneling
scratching
scrabbling
drawn knees
comforter
pounding heart...
dissipation
peace
time...
...chirp, chirp, chirping
non reality
dreams
chirping
dim grayness
light
waking
dawn
new day
no fear...

A haiku

flowers fade away
squirrels race around tall trees
cool fall arises

color fits my mood

just the way it is

photo, where...

...where did it go? OH well, ethereal life on the net!

a haiku

I like Poetry, I like anything that leaves me a bit mystified... particularly when I can not do (it) well.
   The following is a non response, response to the very first message I received in my inbox on PoemHunter.com.

Nigeria, poor souls
I help money for you friend
at the gray bar hotel...Soon!

beef heart

Many years ago, in human terms, I boiled half a beef heart and remember the heart to be good. Yesterday I boiled another heart and it is very good. I even got Michelle, who purchased it for me at a locker, to try some and she did indeed like it even thought she had to add butter when she warmed it up! Taking a lean meat and adding fatness to it is well, ??? Now I have to convince her to purchase the beef tongue... it could be she was put off by the fellow who was purchasing a hogs head to fix up for his family and it did not help when I loosely described how a hogs head is rendered!
Bye,
Mike

Mushrooms

Used to make quite a few mushrooms back when.

just another delay today

   Been anticipating the start of my SSI on May 3rd but it seems that it will now be the second Wednesday of every month, hum... the federal government really is not a good decision maker, kind of like me. I will not be able to get a money order off to Frantz for the glass I need to make a signature cane until then! Then it will be a week and a half before I receive the glass! Psst!
   The weather has been good for working in the dumpy garage 'studio'. The working space is a three block walk from Michelle's apartment and unfortunately three blocks from the restroom too! Poof! I am going to head on over there in a few minutes and wast some oxygen and glass trying out some stuff I have tried to figure out by watching the very few informative glass working videos to be found youtube or as I call  it, clutter tube.
   I need to practice a new video for youtube... need to get a bunch of work done... so much... so little time to get it done, if the gods (pick one) they will get done.

Homemade Incandescent Lamp (Glass Blowing)

going to sleep to live

There is something wonderful about sleep, sleep brings intense dreams before you wake... remembering dreams completes life's reality.

A survivor

Most the stuff I have ever done I have tossed or sold, including my negatives, paintings, lost wax rings etc., sketchbooks and paintings, the painting pictured is a survivor from the late sixties it is a bit bruised but not dead... yet.

networking and a tee shirt image

Networking... At the right of this page I have tried to connect all the sites I use for this networking thing. Why would I do this, well it is easier than answering the door or the telephone and this even extends to answering my e-mail. I can litter the Internet with my nonsense and then go away and let links do there work and connect me or not.
   Starting May 3rd I can start patching up the last four years...
Bye, Mike
   The img... a possible tee shirt...

cell phone, a crash

   Michelle... what can I say... oh yes, she is a poor driver. She has wrecked two cars that I know of... now Michelle has a cell phone! The latest incident... Michelle is taking her mother to Waterloo, Iowa for a doctors appointment and talking on the cell phone to the office help for directions to the doctors office when she pulled into the path of a semi, not too clever! The truck plowed into the back of her car creating a dent that looks like a telephone pole drove into her bumper at a high speed. Well, Michelle and her mother are OK. Has she learned a lesson,er , probably not and that is the bad part of this incident.

Pencil me in!

The pencil was created with sketchup and rendered in kerkythea renditioner, both free versions of the software.

Bye,
   Mike

A no smoking graphics hint for a tee shirt

TEE SHIRT.
The skull and cig theme was created with Inkscape. Inkscape is an open source vector graphics program.

Bye,
Mike, after a long time... back online, E

20 ten

Sorry,
   I have been away looking for the edge of the Earth so I can step off and plunge into eternity.


Say what? OH, what was I doing when I was not looking for some mythical edge of everything... well nothing, other than waiting around until April 3 when the social security administration drops a check in the mail box via Al, the

mailman. I decided to file for SSI early so I can repair 2009s brilliant ideas. No I have not been working glass; way to cold in the garage I was working out of. I hope to get back to work around the middle of March when weather conditions moderate some.

   Bye
 Mike, tipping point, E