Shannon Larratt is Zentastic

I got a bit too ambitious this weekend and spent two days in a row with extended time at the park including a long hike through the hills in addition to baseball practice and sword fighting a la Nerf. It was fun at the time but I’m still in a lot of pain from it and hope that I am healed by the next weekend. It doesn’t help that in my home time I did a lot of work with the Dremel that has left me with somewhat crippled hands and forearms. I haven’t scheduled my EKG yet but at times like this a morbid part of me hopes that the tests show something horribly and terminally wrong with my heart, simply to put a scheduled “end” on the calender to put me out of my misery… So I try and keep enough fun — and enough rest — to still keep things enjoyable even though pain is the primary sensation mated with a slow grind to paraplegia.

Just to be clear I have been successful so far!

I have a nice little collection of little left-over silly ghosties sitting here. As I mentioned before, I make these out of the clay bits that I have as remainders from bigger things. Once the A+B halves are mixed, the clay has to be used, so these little fellows get created with any I can’t use on the main task. I enjoy them sometimes more than the primary object… Go ahead and click to zoom in.

The main thing that I’ve been working on as said primary object is a full scale skull box in sort of a framework design, with lots of holes in it. It’s been a real headache getting the fit of the hinged sections perfect, but I’ve finally got it. Now it’s just a matter of doing the finishing work, and I’m still undecided on the specifics.

Oh, and also in the good news department, we snagged a pile of bikes and a wheelchair from next to the garbage bin at our studio… People are always throwing out interesting things. Maybe we’ll cut them up and re-weld them into some fun mutant bikes.

Yay free bikes!

Other than that, enjoying tonight’s reality TV and trying to rest as much as I can while still having fun.