Bob May Not Be Your Uncle

Coffee in the Atlanta skyline mug, "My Sweet Lord" covered by Nina Simone on iTunes (Happy HAPPY Mix!). Hallelujah, school has started again. Fired the second load of the day in Big Bertha last night at 10:30 pm which puts today's firing at no earlier than noon. That's cool--I have a full morning already. Right now there are only 16 platters to slump and the order for 114 long rectangular platters will be done with a couple to spare. Yea! (iTunes just put up "Shining Star" by Earth, Wind, and Fire--randomness feels poetically accurate this morning).

With some help from Dee last week I put the finishing touches on my suppliers list for the book. Today I am going to pass it off to my assistant (ooh I love that word) Stacy to type up and format for the publisher. As soon as I finish posting I am going to whip up an ad for the Glass Craft Expo spread...

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And, before you could say "Bob's your uncle", the day took off and took me with it. I still don't have the ad for Glass Expo done, but many, many other good things were accomplished. True, not many of them were glass-oriented, but they quacked in the nature of all good ducks lining up in a row. I've often wondered what one's supposed to do with one's ducks once one gets them all in a row. Is it supposed to be easier to shoot them then, or am I just too much of a hunter's child?

I have the penultimate kiln load of rectangular platters ready to hop into Bertha when she is a little cooler, and I *have* sent the suppliers list to Stacy so she can format it. All in all, not a bad day's work. I still search for the cheapest, easiest way to get the Siyeh Studio/Elliott Metal Works boothes to the BMAC in Philadelphia in February and then on to ACRE in Las Vegas in May and then back to the summer BMAC in Philadelphia in August--whether cheapest and easiest equals shipping all the time or having two display set-ups and storing one on each coast has yet to be determined. Right now I haven't even been able to find out if the storage option exists--much less how much it costs. Better make some calls...