Alas, the week has come and gone...

So I'm back at work now. I really can't complain. After all, I like my job. But as always, my off week passes too quickly. I did this past week finally throw something of consequence on my wheel though. Namely, something that I can call pottery because it more than just resembles it. I'm still a little scared to fire anything. I have a feeling that my first firing will end in explosion. But the thought of firing something in a kiln in my back yard in this beautiful weather is somewhat of a charming one. That's what I intend to do with my summer whenever I'm not fishing or working...or doing something else. I have a chess set and some garden gnomes to throw. I need to construct a wedging table of some sort, which I talked to my father about. I'm getting better at the kicking part of the endeavor though, so I might scrap the idea of strapping a motor on my wheel. It's all about where you kick, and I'm no longer kicking it hard enough to throw everything off balance, so...

This past week I saw a lot of my nieces and nephews. I took my nephew up to my sister's house when my friend came to see the llamas and pot bellied pig. It is a cute pig, as far as those things go. And he flew a kite for the first time. My nephew, not the pig. It's been great weather for kite flying and Ultimate. Thursday this week starts the first round of Tournament in League, and it's single round elimination, so hopefully we'll survive to see another disk playing Thursday. Fortunately there's still Saturday and Tuesday. I think I might finally be getting back into shape. Now I just need to hit the gym so I can get some use out of the year I have left on my gym pass. I really should lift some weights, because I'm becoming quite the wimp. And I don't want my right leg to be stronger than my left, now that I'm using it to power my wheel. I've already begun to suspect it being a little longer than my left. I think I tend to lean to the left as well. Hmmnnn... Then I went to the park yesterday. It was windy and somewhat rainy. I think we mostly just sat there waiting for FK to figure out how to convert movies onto her ipod. Why she couldn't just do that in the comfort of her house we'll never know. Then we tossed a disk around, I rather unskillfully I must admit. I was trying to teach Goddess how to flick the thing back-handed, but I have yet to get it down perfectly myself. I just know the mechanics of making it work. I make a better coach than example. I need to work on distance mainly. But the whole thing was worth it just to watch Brian run after the thing though...*he he he*...Quite the spectacle.