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Yesterday I took a day off for adventures. We went to Carnegie so I could
pick out some clay tools at Standard, and I got a large loop tool and two
small ones for trimming, a wee pick/manipulator tool for smoothing the
inside crease on mug handles, some brushes, and split a set of angled trim
tools with P. Then P hung out at the coffee shop while I explored main
street, and I picked up a print from a brilliant colorist at a gallery that
only shows art from women. Home and lunch, then we went to Shadyside so P
could pick up the first part of his order at the Apple store, and I went to
Blick. I got some modeling epoxy and a fettling knife (Standard was out).

The crossword was hard! Like an old school Friday. Many false starts.

I tested out the modeling epoxy and made two signature stamps from the
positives I carved in wax last week. There was some learning curve because
for the first hour after mixing it acts as an adhesive, but I was able to
recover okay and scrape the remnants out of the carvings without damaging
them. Best impressions were at 1.5-2 hours.

I drew a template for the rib I want to make, aimed at compressing the
bottom of small forms. Might do that today.
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Yesterday I went to an early meeting on campus, switched API keys around in
our mobile app, created a new AWS account for the lab, did some experiments
to make sure our demo script for next week is going to work, and found some
new bugs in how the system handles multiple unnamed emails. After work I
attempted to go to the Friday market at the library, but they don’t appear
to have one anymore. Made it home on the bus, late dinner, easy crossword,
and sleep.
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Yesterday was P’s birthday! I took the day off work because there was a lot
to do. I spun more of the Seattle blend, carded more Tunis, and finished
the drafting for the box pleat skirt. After lunch we went to east liberty
and I got my drivers license renewed (...it expired back in November), and
then we went to the Goodwill and picked out a spoon for the jar, and I got
a replacement dye/soap pot. We went shopping at the Shadyside market
district and got some A+ sass from the cheese guy, and also lots of
Katie-snacks. Then we went out to dinner! A very rare occasion for me, but
Driftwood makes all their pizzas from sourdough and P is on first name
terms with the guys who run the place. J wasn’t convinced they could
actually do me a pizza that wouldn’t burn, but N came out and offered an
eggplant-based vegan pie and it was DELICIOUS. The chili oil was a little
challenging for my system but it was totally worth it.

P got some really nice lights for the emergency kit from his parents, and a
Leach book on pottery from me, and a bunch of quality time. A good birthday
was had by all!
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Yesterday I started plying the red brown alpaca, carded some Tunis, fixed
some bugs at work, and finally got into the meat of some experiments I’ve
been working toward. After work I took a bus to the Shadyside market
district and looked at all the things, and found quite a few interesting
snacks to try. P picked me up and we managed to evade most of the traffic
heading home. Vague crossword was vague.

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