I just spent the day with a co-worker who showed a lot of interest in learning glass-bead making. We worked out a curriculum, a fee schedule, and what was needed to set up a bench in her kitchen nook. She is an artist who already works with metal (jeweler), paint, and mosaic. I have spent the last 25 years with no…

If you let the hot glass stay at 1300 degs F for too long, it will devitrify - ie. crystalize on the surface. Looks pretty ugly and you gotta throw that piece out and start over. A real bummer when you fired the piece 3 times to fuze and sag it into shape. I tried to use devit on purpose but there is no way to make…

Hey - thanks for the shout-out, glad you are still ranting (how do you get all that saliva out of your keyboard?).

Yep, you're still here.

Heh,heh - are you still going on about that? Give it up man - you're now just randomly trying to rattle a cage.

Another way I was taught to look at it was to ask how much do I have to have invested to buy that? A $10 item needs a $100 in the bank for a year; sometimes this is stated as "never spend capital".

How is a guy supposed to stay grumpy on a day like this? This is too much, just too much - bangs, ABBA giving away kitties, and Bee nailing the national anthem.

I think I saw her in a PBS ad - if I am right, she plays a bass-like instrument and sings jazz and if I am wrong....

She is so damned beautiful! The bangs framing her face makes my heart ache.

Better than that high school graduation speech about how these were the best days of your life.

Well, the ex-Mrs Grumpy came by to get more stuff. We went to breakfast, stopped by Ross to get an 'occasional' chair (wtf?), loaded the car with plants and boxes of stuff. I helped get one load up to her place; tried to say hi to kitty but she thinks I am a stranger now. I got home and realized I/we forgot her ferns…

There are so damn many results with that search but this is the one I liked best:

Oh, come on - you can do better than that. Not even a small rant - sigh, I was expecting more from you. Thanks anyway.

I am not sure what you are asking for here - are you asking for the president to not take a vacation? Are you asking for the president to not take a security detail? Are you asking for the president to be 'unavailable' during his vacation? What is it that you are complaining about and what would you have the…

OMG that was so funny - you are one seriously fucked up dude but that shit really made my day. Thanks.

You only know of 2 birds your cat killed. Thank you for adopting old, sick, debilitated cats - for your fucking information what you are saying is because you adopt old sick cats all cats should be let outside to kill the local wildlife. You should make your fucking argument for your cats not for all cats.

Hah! Deadspin talks shit about Jez and you are here, why?

Well, you sure were right about people thinking you are an asshole, ferchristssake, we got that with the first post, you didn't need to keep piling shit on. But...HUGS.

The ex-Mrs.Grumpy had a wonderful cat named Augie; she got him in 1988, I joined them in 91 - he lived to approximately 19 years old (a rescue kitty of unknown provenance) and died in her lap after a last look out the window. He traveled with us from Seattle to Tuscon then to Raleigh and back to Seattle. What a…