but then discovered I had the wrong screws. Now I have to make another long bike trip through four-lane traffic to the industrial district to buy different ones. Grmpf.

Just drilled the first two holes (out of four) to anchor my whatever-it's-called-in-English to my workbench. Now very nervous of drilling the next two, which have to be exactly parallel to the first two, and spaced just the right distance from them.

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I spent most of today at the workbench, but maaaaan, what a day. Somehow it was only composed of the most annoying parts of goldsmith's work. And I ended up having to scrap a significant percentage of the day's work, just now. Gah.

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- Keep looking for a job. (Obviously.) Two applications per week, minimum. Better three ( Read more... )

No, not a 'real' one yet - let's not get ahead of ourselves here. ;-) Just a weird little part-time job, doing unspecified office help stuff that, oddly, for the most part seems to consist of putting women's fitness equipment up on ebay, for now. :D ( Read more... )

oh, everything. Damn.

I just spent two full days working on jewellery, actually finishing or near-finishing four pieces, which reduces my To Do list in that area quite a bit. It feels good, but there's still so much old stuff I never finished... most frustratingly, a pair of earrings I promised my mother for Christmas... years ago. I gave her the ( Read more... )

... were the two seemingly antithetical results of my short but 'intense' trip to Britain. The physical exhaustion, a result of travelling 18 hours by coach, showed as a desire to sleep through all of Monday, interrupted only by two hours of work in the evening. The - unexpected! - mental relaxation showed as sudden inspiration to vid and make ( Read more... )

More or less fine - kinda panicking in slow motion about the thesis ( Read more... )