Nothing real new or exciting to report....Just been working on house junk and haven't had a lot of time to get muddy or play with Photoshop. Soon I will be out at the East Helena office and will have even less to report....
This is the East Helena office, its okay if you are jealous
So after putting it off (more like having to put it off) for about five years I finally took a throwing class. For non pottery speaking people that is using a wheel. Its been enjoyable to say the least and its nice to get in and make stuff again. Now just getting as good as I want to be at it...
The shack is my lovely work location for another month. The spider is our mascot, it hangs out in the door frame. The third pic is some demo going on next to the stacks.
I grew up in a small town that was home to at one time the 5th largest lead smelter in the world. The smelter opened in 1888, my ancestors were there. During its life of operation, I have had family employed there. It was a fixture in the landscape that to the locals was just simply there just like any mountain or lake that surrounded the area. It just had funny smells and made some strange noises. It was thought of as something that was always there and something that would always be there. In the old days when you graduated high school (or not) you knew that you could get a job there and make some decent money. Later the guarantee of a job wasnt so definite but it was still an option. I worked there for a summer and a Christmas break to get some money for college. I was the sixth gener- ation of my family to work there. My dad started the day before he graduated high school in 1965. He worked there until it closed in 2001. The reality of the entity that would always be there suddenly not being there anymore really shocked my dad and I swear he aged 10 years those last few months. He was a blacksmith for most of the time he worked out there. The last two years he drove a loader around moving ore from place to place. He took the loader job to get out from under the thumb of the guy that was in charge of the shops. To make a long story short, this guy put the squeeze on my dad to make himself look better and nurse some childhood grudges. He stressed my dad out so much that he said hell with it and transferred to another end of the plant. When everyone else was getting laid off this son of a bitch got to keep his job and live in a mansion for free. Yes a mansion. Now the smelter is being demolished. I work for the company that engineered the demolition and is doing the over sight of the demo. I get the privi- lege to be out there logging all the scrap that is getting buried in a cont- ainment facility truck by truck. It is so surreal to be out there watching things fall down that were always going to be there. I like the fact that I get to put the place to rest when my family was part of building it and operating it over the years. The best part about it is learning that that son of a bitch that hassled my dad so much is getting laid off next month. I get to be out there every day and get to see that guy stress out about losing his job and probably getting booted out of the mansion. I am a huge fan of poetic justice. The only thing that would make it better is if he got busted for steeling something from there as well.
Is the recipient of a nifty new soap dish. And in doing so gave me the power to stalk her She is a very accommodating stalking victim with the freshest smelling laundry, beautiful backyard and pool but best of all she makes some mean lemonade.
I need to go and see what she put in her trash Thanks for kicking me over 20,000 page views!
Its hot out. I'm sweaty. I've been doing a lot of yard work. I feel dirty.
In celebration of my grime and gunge and funk, I thought I would feature some squeaky clean pin-ups.
new advertising daydreaming about being a understanding waiting for
Listening to: the birds twittering at me for being in their tree
Reading: booklet for my nightvision binocs
Watching: Somebody making more lemonade
Drinking: Lemonade
I feel dirty
Journal Entry: Fri Aug 8, 2008, 7:35 PM
The lucky Deviant that hits my 20,000th page view and shows me a screen capture of it gets a soap dish.
Lucky Deviant will have to fork over their address and risk giving me the ability to stalk them fore ever and ever...or until you move
It took me forever to get 500 page views so the concept that I am approaching 20,000 has floored me. And I thank and appreciate all 19,999 of you but there is no way I am making that many soap dishes.
Its hot out. I'm sweaty. I've been doing a lot of yard work. I feel dirty.
In celebration of my grime and gunge and funk, I thought I would feature some squeaky clean pin-ups.
thinking about conspiracies waiting for someone to understanding