Cute trick

Yesterday I met with S about further middleware problems, which turned out
to be mysterious enough that she took the source code with her to
investigate offline. Achievement unlocked? Spent the rest of the day on
sequence diagrams and modeling colon+list constructions as appositives.

P had a late meeting with a student, so I hung out in the booths on WeH1
and had pre-clay snack there. Open studio was good; thinning out the shino
glaze made it stick much better to the outside of the copper red and I have
high hopes it will work out. The glaze firing was ready, and all my pots
turned out beautifully — orange haystack over temoku develops a lovely
sheen, and over yellow salt breaks into complex smears of coppers, blues,
and umbers. A+ will do that again. P had some lovely pots in this batch
too, including a voluptuous little wee cup for hot chocolate, a really
pretty tip jar done with barium blue, and some nice small vases. One
mystery failure of tomato red, which crawled all over the place. S’s
hypothesis was failure to damp-wipe the piece before glazing, contributing
to both too thick a glaze application (dry bisque eats water) and a bad
bond with the pot (dust). We paid a ridiculously low price for our stuff,
and I spent the rest of the night trimming.