Another day at P-LAND

This is the view from my window this morning....Things are heating up here, so the mornings get foggy, and I dig the fog....Ain't this a purdy view?

I must be going thru the male equivilant of "THE RAG" as I have been really short-tempered alot these last few days....Perhaps it has something to do with being one of the few people in my class who do not have a bunch of experience....I feel like a moron and an imposter half the time, but that's the way it goes I guess....NOTHING WORTH HAVING, COMES EASILY, as they say....

Some of you have been asking for pictures of things I've done....Well, we have mostly been doin' tools, and as I am still unsure of where to begin on my own projects....here are a pair of tongs, made from 1 inch mild steel I believe....They ain't easy to make, so I can be fairly proud of 'em....



Appropriately enough, my life, besides being filled with the breathy calls for attention from THE BEAST.... are also filled with this.....




....it's the scale that forms on the outside of the metal you're poundin', and I cannot remember the exact scientific occurence going on, but it involves heat, and cooling, and molecules and atoms redistributing....which, I guess, descibes alot of scientific occurences..so whadda you gonna do....
...anyways, it is called "SLAG", and it is all over the ground in the shop, like silver snow....
.....some of you reading this have been called slag as well....but for different reasons, I imagine....

.....ciao-for-now