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You may have noticed a decline in the amount of carving I've been doing. There are reasons for this. I will list them now. Mike was back for another week. Work is entering a busy time. Yesterday was Easter. But things should pick up some this week as Mike is not visiting, some schools have the week off, and it is not Easter.

Nothing else to report. I just want you guys to know I was quite proud of your commenting this week. I think this one is my most commented photo ever.

You can also check out Mike's contribution to the Ibis.

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Birthday weekend is over. It was a success. At least for me. I assume everyone else had fun, but I'm most important, so it was a success. For those that don't know, which may be exactly two of you, Mike and Sophie have birthdays on March 26 and mine is on the 29th. So we decided to get everyone together this past weekend. Everyone means Mike and Judy from Colorado, Victor and Sophie from Maryland, and Eric and Chrissy from Connecticut. As my place of residence is most centrally located, everyone came here. +/-

I was finally able to deliver these three creations:


I've had Brutus the Buckeye since January, but he's finally found his way to Eric, the Ohio State Buckeye's fan. I was able to pass off the dragon and the Hermes as birthday gifts for Mike and Sophie respectively. I think the real Hermes has already tried mating with the wooden Hermes. And the wooden dragon has already burned three villages.

Speaking of gifts, I was blessed to receive this from Victor and Sophie:


For you lame-o people out there, that is an Edward Cullen figure. Edward is the super sexy vampire from Twilight. Look it up. No more time to explain. I've got to go stare into his eyes.

Oh yeah, I started planning the Ibis, but I don't think I'll start carving until this weekend.

Quick hits before I stay

Got some guests coming here this weekend, so nothing from me until after that.

Hermes is complete.

I might actually take a week off from carving to work on some other stuff, so maybe nothing from me for the next 10 days.

Laterz.

I'll be back....is what I should have said earlier because now I am back

My analysis of the problem turned out to be correct. New power supply arrived today and things are running well. I decided on continuing pictures as I go since the problem was quickly resolved and half of you probably don't even realize I had no computer. If you've been dying to see a couple hundred wooden feathers it's your lucky day.

Tastes like burning

I'm sleepy, but I feel obligated to write something. My carving schedule has been a bit inconsistent this last week or so, as you may have notcied from the gaps of days between pictures. But I'm entering the home stretch with Hermes, so I resolved to spend more time working on it/her. This makes sense when you consider that I need to finish by next Wednesday. So today was going to be the start of the glorious process of feathering an entire foot tall bird. Luckily my computer shut off an hour before I had to go tutor and it would not turn back on. I'm hoping the faint odor of burning was just the power supply dying. So rather than work on the bird, I spent most of my time investigating computery things and hooking up my old computer all sandwiched around four hours of math. I feel like I used the word "so" too many times.

You might be thinking that this really has nothing to do with carving. Aside from eating up a bunch of my time it wouldn't really, except for the fact that all my pictures are on a computer that won't turn on. If it was the power supply things should be back to normal in a couple days. There likely won't be pictures put up until that point. I may not put them up anyway until after Hermes is complete. We'll see how things go. If something else was burning I may just /wrist and be done with it. HAVE GOOD NIGHT EVERYONE!!!

generically titled post to honor generically titled baseball stuff with dionysum

What up what up. Working on Hermes now. Hermes is a female spirochete. That's not true, but it sounds kinda like parakeet. The truth is I have no idea what Hermes is other than bird. The real question here is why have you named your female bird after a male god? I'm speaking to the mainlanders here. How many people are thoroughly confused at this point? I hope at least one of you. So yeah, working on a bird.

I'll probably update the coming attractions stuff tomorrow, but up next will be another bird. I normally don't like to do two similar things in a row, but my boy Azziz (pronounced Ozzie (this is an inside joke that only he and I will understand (note the rare use of triple parathenses here, somthing only a pro can manage (pro at what I have no idea)))) is graduating from law school in May. He goes to The U and has settled on some bird related to The U with some symbol related to The U on it. Anyway, check for something on that tomorrow.

Finally, EMG has started a baseball blog. For those of you that care about baseball, check it out. I linked to it in the read or else section. My hope is there will be some trash talking here or there once the season starts. Or now. Hahahahah Carl Pavano. And you can't come back at me with A-Rod. That's just too cliche.

There were actually a lot of respectable (which means insulting to normal people) comments the last two weeks. Unfortunately they're kind of spread out. But if you're bored start here and then when you run out of those you can move to here.

AND THE DRAGON COMES IN THE NIIIIIGHT!!!!

I have actually been doing stuff the last few days even though there haven't been pictures. One thing I was doing was considering my options for the wings. You can see more on that in the pictures I added tonight. While pondering I was also painstakingly filling in tiny unpainted spots between scales. I didn't think this would be interesting so I haven't been putting up pictures of that. I also started work on the next project. My feeble system of photo organization can't handle two current projects, though. I believe I have completed the dragon, so expect a bunch of pictures from the new thing to show up tomorrow.

Victor was kind enough to post some encouraging comments this week. Check them out. Oh, and earmuffs before you start reading them.

And if you'd like to understand the title of this post you should view this.