First off, my sincere and heart felt thanks for the private emails sent from so many of you.  I'm still majorly stressed over the deadline and all, but your support and encouragement has really helped with that rather bitter initial disappointment I was going through.  And an extra special thanks go out to Peachy and Tiger Wilson.  Thanks to them, I may still be a broke and somewhat neurotic artist, but I am no longer a starving one.  I'm really not sure what else to say.  I know I should say more, but I never seem to be very good at this whole word crafting thing when I really want to be.
    And now, for your amusement, I present to you todays brain fart.




The Reasoning:  A empty Aquafina bottle makes a much safer ash tray than a regular one.  When working in a shop where the floor is most usually covered in a fine film of rather flammable dust, it just makes more sense to keep a half full water bottle by the lathe so I can drop my finished cigarette butts in that and screw the lid on.  This way I always know the cigarette goes out immediately when I'm done with it.

The Potential:  Another bottle is used for actual water drinking purposes.

The Confusion:  Bottle A is kept in entirely too close of a proximity to Bottle B.

Possible Influence:  Insignificant amounts of sleep, followed by significant amounts of time working.

The Problem:  Failure to more closely examine both bottles before blinding grabbing one for a drink.

The Result:  Population of discarded cigarette butts in Bottle A reduced from 36 to 32.  Population of discarded cigarette butts in stomach dramatically increased from 0 to 4.  Further investigation into dramatic changes in population not deemed necessary at this time.

The Findings:  As well as an excellent compost material, wood shavings are also good for absorbing the end results of an unexpected street pizza delivery.




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Raven